.....does the buck stop with you? Do you even care? Is your surname going to vanish? Should I get married and have 4 kids? What me worry?

 

Yes, the buck stops with me. I have a daughter, but no boys, and don't plan on any more kids. I'm not so worried about the surname thing, though.

 

I have one sis.
Only one other male in the family that is capable of passing on the name..
And if history repeats itself, none of the mothers stay around long enough to FIND OUT his last name.

So, seeing as how the g/f and I both agree to be DINK's, (she hates kids, and I can live vicariously through all my friends for whom breeding seems to be a hobby), the name dies with me. Besides, does the world really need another little version of me. I know I dont.

 

I have a younger sister.
My son is 27, and apparently good at spreading seed. Once he settles down, I'm sure the surname will live-on.

 

Are you an only child...

My two sisters tell my mother (and my wife) that I am all the time !!!!

It's nice to be at least the first born and still spoiled @ an advanced age

 

Same here, I have two Daughters. I do have a half-brother that has twin boys, but never comes around to see his father (also my father), his lost.
My wife and I were foster parents for several years, had a chance to adopt a boy we had for about a year, but let him go to a family we thought would be better for him.... Life goes on.

 

No, the buck doesn't stop. I have three boys and I wouldn't change a thing its great. I have someone to take fishing, drag racing, truck shows, etc.....

 

I'm not an only child, but am the only one that could pass my name along (2 sisters). My father had a brother, but he didn't have any kids. I really couldn't care about keeping the name alive. The guy listed on my birth certificat as 'father' I consider to be a donor. My mom married the guy that I considered to be my dad when I was in college. Right before my wife and I got married, she was trying to decide what to change her name to. I used to joke that we should just come up with a last name that we both liked and BOTH change our last name to that. Regardless, the name will live on. We have a 3 1/2 year old little boy that will NOT have to make that same joke about his name somewhere down the road.

 

(Other B here)
I have a younger sister, but no blood brothers. I tried convincing my hubby to change his name to mine when we married but he didn't go for it! He has 3 sisters, and a brother and 1 nephew to carry on their name. We have enough kids in the family, all of them reminders of why we aren't having any of our own.

We talk about adopting a boy someday, and if we have the option of naming him, we agreed that my maiden name will be his midle name. I'm rather proud of my family name, in spite of the fact that I have relatives in the White House mess.

 

There were times I wished I were an only child, but now I'm older & mom and dad are both gone, I'm glad I have my older brother, because I don't get along with most of my relatives.

Wife and I are end of the line as far as my immediate family goes for helping to overpopulate the world. Neither of us wanted kids then or now and cannot understand why it is people need to make a dozen little replicas of themselves. Well...I take that back...I was in love once before and she wanted kids and I was willing and able...but things have long since changed.

 

Yep I'm the only child and we have a daughter. My wife says no more yardapes.

 

Sometimes I wish I was....

Yes I've had my but kicked many of times. I am the youngest of 3. I have a brother 6 years older & a sister 3 years older.

 

I am the only child. So far the buck stops with me. If and when i ever get married then i do hope to have at least one boy to carry on the name.

 

As much as I tried to sire some rugrats for future generations,it didn't happen.

The only other family member manufactured 2 boys that will carry on the name.

 

How ironic it is that I find myself typing this after the phone call I got last night.First,to explain.The donor who created me was a pig who dumped my mother and then disappeared on the day he found out she was pregnant.So without going into details,the first ten years were not so good.Then my mom met my DAD,This man married my mom and took me in and treated me as if I was his from birth.There was never any need for him to adopt me on paper,so my last name and his are not the same.Two years ago he suffered a major heartattack and we thought we were going to lose him.Well he pulled through,and that got me thinking,what better way for me to prove my love for him,than to change my last name to his.Well,what I found out was that if I did this I would then have to adopt my own children in order to change their name,so on advice from Dad,I did not do it.Then last night I get a phonecall to say he is going back in for open heart surgery on thursday and that his cancer that had been in remission for years is back.Please forgive me for dumping my burdens on you,but he has asked me not to mention this to anyone in our family,but with all the other problems in my life right now this is becoming unbearable and they say that talking about it helps relieve some of the stress.