Last name didn't change after getting married.
I moved two sims in together and when they got married, the female still has the same last name she did before they got married, and their child has her last name.
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I think the game is telling us that nobody has to change who they are just because they got married and children clearly refers to whom gave birth to them. This is the most logical system ever which I personally think should be applied in real life. This will also save men from the idiotic syndrome of "I must continue my bloodline and my surname I must have a son (not a daughter)"
I know this is going out of "the sims" subject but, what is being done in real life, forcing women to change their surname somewhere in the middle of their life is like taking away who originally they are from them. But the society is so got used to it, it is so emposed in to our brains that it should be that way, even in a simple video game, people complain about not seeing the replica of that real world's nonsense traditions.
Some might disagree with me, but note that today, in some countries women don't take their husband's surname. There's no such a law. And in some countries, children get 2 surnames, both from their mom and dad. But in most of the so-called modern countries like the USA, women continue to be considered as personal properties whose ownership is transferred from their father to their husband and I'm so against it. Some may think it is just a surname on the paper but I think a woman's (and a man's) name and surname is their identity, it's who they are and marriage shouldn't change it.
To conclude, I like it how works in TS4.
I know this is going out of "the sims" subject but, what is being done in real life, forcing women to change their surname somewhere in the middle of their life is like taking away who originally they are from them. But the society is so got used to it, it is so emposed in to our brains that it should be that way, even in a simple video game, people complain about not seeing the replica of that real world's nonsense traditions.
Some might disagree with me, but note that today, in some countries women don't take their husband's surname. There's no such a law. And in some countries, children get 2 surnames, both from their mom and dad. But in most of the so-called modern countries like the USA, women continue to be considered as personal properties whose ownership is transferred from their father to their husband and I'm so against it. Some may think it is just a surname on the paper but I think a woman's (and a man's) name and surname is their identity, it's who they are and marriage shouldn't change it.
To conclude, I like it how works in TS4.
