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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

— James Joyce

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

— Dwyane Wade

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

— Melinda Gates

People wanted to make products based on our child's name, and you don't want anybody trying to benefit off your baby's name.

— Jay-Z

Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.

— Gregory Benford

This pro-choice issue is a legal issue that should be decided by the courts.

— Michael T. Flynn

I believe in allowing your child to be who they want to be - as long as they want to be something great.

— Ciara

No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the Children and Family Services Division puts so much effort into finding permanent homes for the kids who are never going to be reunited with their birth parents.

— Rhea Perlman

✗Opposing Perspectives

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

— Karen DeCrow

I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother's womb is a person at the moment of conception.

— Mike Huckabee

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

— Erma Bombeck