I believe that this practice persist still in today's society because that is how this concept has always been viewed and that is just the social norm that we know it today. No one has ever really questioned why we do this and what the point of change would be. Yes the thought of women being a piece of property and treated that way is an unpleasant thought, but to me I think the male last name sticks because of how it all originated. In my opinion, I think most males would not want to give up their family name or want to change their last name in general and this could be an example of a patriarchy in todays society. So basically it is almost a tradition and social norm today that we just take the males last name for the new family name. It
