(same person as above)

our daughter was born in the US and carries both our last names. It has confused only a few people in her 19 years of life. But then we live in Istanbul in an area that has always had many mixed marriages. She has four names. I have always told her she is perfectly welcome as an adult to go to court and change her name in any way ( meaning get rid of mine), but she really likes it. She feels it shows her heritage. It has never been a problem-- and once we would not have been able to fly home from Bodrum on Turkish Airlines if her ID card had not had my name on it as well.