Yes, of course, there are good reasons for picking one name over another, and some want to get rid of their family name or just prefer their husband's name.
Fun story: My last name is from my mother, my parents chose that as the family name and my father has a hyphenated combination. When my parents married in 1976 that had just become legal that month and the local authorities still had the old forms, so the official had a bit of trouble filling it.
Usually women don't need to get pressured, they give up their last names voluntarily, which makes me wonder if that's what they really done or if there is still subtle societal pressure that that's expected of them.
Combining names (typically with a hyphen, I think just using both names isn't even legal here in Germany) is a good practice but I feel it's a bit out of fashion. Many in my parents generation did that but few in my or the younger generation do.
While I fully respect every couples choice to pick a common surname when they get married, somehow something inside me dies everytime I see a woman changing her name. Can't help it, but it makes me sad.
Dear Americans, this meme is from the German satire TV show "extra3" ... that's how we understood the duel between Trump and Harris from across the Atlantic 😅
Update: she saw me in her profile visitors and mentioned it but said it's okay.
I would bet $100 that at least one White, US-born American has eaten a cat or a dog in the past year.
Okay, thanks!