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Illegitimacy
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illegitimacy: see bastard bastard, person born out of wedlock whose legal status is illegitimacy. In civil law countries and in about half the states of the United States, the union of the parents in marriage after birth makes the child legitimate.
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Illegitimacy
bend sinister
supposed stigma of illegitimate birth. [Heraldry: Misc.]
Clinker, Humphry
servant of Bramble family turns out to be illegitimate son of Mr. Bramble. [Br. Lit.: Humphry Clinker, Payton, 324]
Edmund
illegitimate son of Earl of Gloucester; conspires against father. [Br. Hist.: King Lear]
Jones, Tom
revealed to be Squire Allworthy’s sister Bridget’s illegitimate son. [Br. Lit.: Fielding Tom Jones]


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In practice, however, many women found that they couldn't go through with an abortion, and out-of-wedlock births soared.
Abortion and crime: one has an effect on the other, but it may not be ... by Lott, John R., Jr. / National Review
In British novelist and screenwriter Fay Weldon's recent autobiography--saucily entitled Auto Da Fay, for all you Spanish Inquisition fans--she tells a simultaneously charming and unsettling tale about an out-of-wedlock birth in the late 1950s.
The least coldhearted option by Goodden, Herman / Catholic Insight
To this end, Conjugal America argues strongly against practices that favor the single individual over the married couple or large family, welfare payments that support out-of-wedlock births, and any redefinition of marriage that could divert societal, economic, or moral support for male-female family-producing couples.
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