Catherine Page Jeffery with her daughter Eve Jeffery and her husband David Jeffery at their Glebe home. Picture: Kristi Miller Source: The Daily Telegraph
THE hyphen's out and double barrels are in - but there's no name and shame these days as more mums pass their maiden moniker down to the kids.
With hyphenated surnames long regarded as pretentious posturing, women are opting for a streamlined approach by simply merging their name with their husband's.
When Channel 9 boss David Gyngell and TV host Leila McKinnon welcomed their first child Edmund McKinnon Gyngell into the world this month, he joined a new wave of children to get a double-barrelled surname - sans hyphen, of course.
Research by Swinburne University of Technology senior sociology lecturer Dr Deborah Dempsey and Monash University associate professor Jo Lindsay suggests this approach is more popular for mothers than children.
But almost half of families now have members with different surnames as mums retain their self-identity.
"This is definitely a new trend, " demographer Bernard Salt said, adding female empowerment played a major part in the development.
"After 40 years of advancement in society, women are equals within relationships and within the child's name - especially where women are successful in their own right as Leila McKinnon is."
The Gen Y ideology of allowing for options also plays a major role.
"It is like dual citizenship where at 18 a child gets to choose which country they want to be a citizen of," Mr Salt said.
"With these surnames they get to road test both names, see which one fits best and possibly choose one of the two names when they are adults."
Catherine Page Jeffery, 34, of Glebe, and daughter Eve are an example of the modern mother and child. The mother's maiden name was Page and her husband David was Jeffery so she opted to become Catherine Page Jeffery when they married.
Although Ms Page Jeffery wanted to keep her maiden name, she felt it was important to have a connection with her husband and daughter - so adding Jeffery was logical.
"A hyphen seemed unnecessary to me. The space looked nicer and I knew a few people who had chosen this option," she said. Daughter Eve has only taken her dad's name to keep it simple.
"My husband assumed her name would be Page Jeffery, but then I decided on Jeffery," Ms Page Jeffrey said.
"You have to think about the future and give them an opportunity to choose a double-barrelled surname when they get married."
Dr Dempsey believes double-barrelled surnames with hyphens are not as popular primarily because they sound "pretentious".
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