Regarding the legal provisions on children’s surnames, I searched for the following information:
- Article 22 of my country’s current Marriage Law stipulates: “Children can take their father’s surname or their mother’s surname.” , but only if parents reach consensus.
- Article 1015 of the Civil Code, which took effect on January 1, 2021, clarifies that natural persons should take their father’s or mother’s surname. However, in special circumstances, they can take their father’s surname and their mother’s surname. In addition to the mother's surname, choose the surname of other direct elders, the surname of the dependent, or the surname with other legitimate reasons. The surnames of natural persons from ethnic minorities can follow the customs of their own ethnic groups.
- Names can not only reflect individual psychology and behavior, but also reflect the cultural psychology and preferences of the group. Name’s impact on personal well-being through the medium of self-esteem?.
- Names are also an important mark of witnessing history. Names full of memories silently tell you historical stories and the process of social development. Chinese names perfectly combine traditional Chinese culture with the characteristics of the times, telling people the development process of Chinese society over thousands of years.
- At the beginning of its creation, the surname was an identification symbol that marked the clan or social blood relationship. Due to different social and historical development periods, surnames are affected by different social comprehensive factors, reflecting the cultural characteristics of different social eras.