Usually, the children of these marriages are given their father's surname.
Children are given the mother's surname, especially after divorce or single motherhood.
Male children are given the mother's surname, and female children the father's.
The couple had given them their surname, although they were too old by then to legally adopt.
The child of an unwed mother is given his mother's surname.
She was a pretty young widow with a small son, and Thomas went to law to give the little boy his own surname.
He legally adopted her children and gave them his surname.
The couple adopted young Paul and gave him their own surname.
An older woman, Justyna, did not want to give her surname.
Diana's birth was never registered and they were all given their mother's surname.