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When couples disagree on multicultural naming traditions for their children

My husband and I are raising our kids with three languages and two cultural traditions, but we keep disagreeing on which name traditions to follow and our families are starting to make comments about what we're 'really' teaching our children about their identity.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The challenge of creating coherent identity practices when partners come from different cultural naming systems and face external family pressure.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Name and identity across cultures?”

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