Converted Catholics........

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But someone needs to carry your family name. No?

Not really, since it's not my real name. I was adopted at the age of--well, young--and now my father, whom I've never met and who has a different name from me, is finally wanting to meet me after 35 years. Hmmm, and the first time he contacts me is because he's so grief-stricken that his son (I had a brother!!) had killed himself, and now I've all he's got left. And I don't even have his name.

Just another case in point that divorce is an abomination. Look at all the problems it causes.

Still, your name is your identity is it not? Doesn't the family who adopted  you deserve to have their name passed on?

Your biological father is a difficult situation, but remember, it's not just his name, but his father's as well, and his father, and so on. It shouldn't just die because of your spite for one man. think of your ancestors, there is more in a name than just a word.