I regretted giving my daughter her dad's last name. I changed it to include mine also.

I regretted giving my daughter her dad's last name. I changed it to include mine also.

The author's daughter (not pictured) now has both her parents' last names.Cavan Images/Getty Images/Cavan Images RFI gave my daughter her dad's last name, and I assumed we'd get married and live happily ever after. He left me six months after she was born, and she didn't have my last name. I felt like all the physical effort I made to bring her to the world wasn't reflected in her name. When genetic testing results revealed I was pregnant with a…