Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6533159-20151015224111/@comment-26463535-20151019053759

FinalWholockianGrrlGamer wrote: As for the surname thing, I still really think that neither party changes surname when they get married like in Korea, and the children can choose one or the other. I think there's just a simpler explanation. Yang was left by her mother, practically making her father her only parent, meaning she got his last name. Summer and Taiyang probably didn't marry before her death because of Raven, though maybe they were planning on it. But it didn't happen so Ruby got her mom's name since technically Summer would have been a single mom at that point.

I know this has been promlagated before, but it just seems the simplist and clearest explanation out there.