Your role in your lineage

[Teuthida]

My last name is pretty uncommon but I do have one male cousin on my father's side who already has kids so I'm off the hook.

That said, do you consider the name or the genetic code to be more important? I think my sister is more likely to have kids than I. She's gay though, so there's a chance the kid won't be related but could still have the last name.

[Combine 017]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

My last name is pretty uncommon but I do have one male cousin on my father's side who already has kids so I'm off the hook.

That said, do you consider the name or the genetic code to be more important?

Im more concerned with spreading my genes that continuing my name, although id rather have a son than a daughter, ive seen what a daughter can do to a man.

[Typhoid]

I missed this post:

That said, do you consider the name or the genetic code to be more important? I think my sister is more likely to have kids than I. She's gay though, so there's a chance the kid won't be related but could still have the last name.

Carrying on the name itself is the only thing that weighs on me. Both of my sisters already have kids, so the family genes are already beyond me - but the last name (at this branch) would end with me.

Like I said before though there are obviously other people with my last name in the places the name stemmed from - but in North America, there are maybe 6 families. And that's it. They apparently have an incredible knack for having more girls than boys.

I find it an incredibly depressing prospect to be the last line in carrying on the family name. Heritage is important in my family, knowing where you came from, that sort of thing. We actually have our family tree. It's a massive amount of papers that dates back 500+ years. One of my relatives wrote the first History of England (In French), Some were humble Italian cabbage farmers - others, Jesuits, who escaped from Italy -> France - > Montreal, over the course of 500 years.

I just really, really don't want my last name on my branch of the tree to die off and morph into something else. In some families "Jones" may turn into "Smith", and suddenly the family name is 'different' just due to the fact that their might be a generation of all-females, or the males don't have males. But to be the one to stop a 500+ year branch on a family tree would be horrible.

I need to start looking for some suitable mates.

[KillerGremlin]

The solution is simple: become Mormon. Polygamy baby.

If it makes you feel any better, we are at a strange point in evolutionary history where the guys are going against ALL of our natural urges to fuck as many women as we can. A few thousand years ago you were painting as many uterine walls as you could. Nowadays you're lucky to be an alpha male hooking up with, what is the average amount of casual flings, like 7?

Also, in the evolving progressive world, many women aren't donning their husband's last name or are going with the hyphen hybrid.

But I get it. You want to fell like a champion while you do your thing.