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* Why did the girls change their last names along with Carol when Carol and Mike got married? Was it less common for girls in blended families to retain their original last names in those days? Were girls expected to always have the same last name as their mother? Yes, it still happens sometimes today when a mother's new husband adopts the mother's daughter, but girls retaining their original last name seems much more common now.
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* Why did the girls change their last names along with Carol when Carol and Mike got married? Was it less common for girls in blended families to retain their original last names in those days? Were girls expected to always have the same last name as their mother? Yes, it still happens sometimes today when a mother's new husband adopts the mother's daughter, but girls retaining their original last name seems much more common now.now.
** Whatever happened to their birth father, he clearly wasn't in their lives. Therefore he probably deemed it appropriate to legally adopt them.
** Whatever happened to their birth father, he clearly wasn't in their lives. Therefore he probably deemed it appropriate to legally adopt them.
