My last name has no meaning to me I have never brought shame to it, but someone in my family did. When I was nine my biological father and his wife brought shame by abusing two of my siblings and myself. It caused a lot of drama, and pain later on and a lot of the family split apart and chose sides after this, and I have wanted to change my last name ever sense. My mom and my grandmother fight all the time because my grandmother wants to treat us like some charity case just because we don’t have a father. My mom does not like handouts, so she gets mad, then my grandfather, fusses at my grandmother for telling people we need help. At this point everyone is upset and starts to argue. Blood is not thicker than water because family will hurt you then disown you and friends can become your family.