This section discusses the history of illegitimacy, the purpose of intestacy statutes, and the historical inheritance rights of the child born
out of wedlock.
On Tuesday, the Tokyo District Court, while turning down a demand for damages by an unmarried couple and their child from Tokyo, ruled that marking a child born
out of wedlock differently in a family registry violates privacy rights.
We computed the ratio of number of children born
out of wedlock to number of siblings age 13 and above.
For younger women, the proportion who conceive or give birth
out of wedlock is higher: 85% for white women 15-19 and 98% for African Americans.
Partisans of a general crisis of the seventeenth century will take heart to learn that within their period (say 1630-1730), ages at marriage were higher, births
out of wedlock were rarer, brides were less often pregnant, parity progression ratios were lower, and births came more seldom to wives in their forties.
Compared to a time -- say, 1950 -- when women were encouraged to be (and were) far less sexually free than men, we now have stratospheric rates of unplanned births, births
out of wedlock, births to teenaged mothers, pregnancy-related high school dropouts, low birth-weight and diseased newborns, abortions, and sexually transmitted diseases.
Nearly a third of the children born in America last year were born
out of wedlock.
Having a child
out of wedlock often means a lifetime in poverty.
Welfare encourages women to quit school or work and have babies
out of wedlock, according to the conventional wisdom.
In 1987, 17% of live births among whites and 62% of live births among blacks were
out of wedlock [2].
In a rigidly Catholic country that legalized divorce only in 1997, more than one third of all children are now born
out of wedlock.
Dubai -- A housemaid, who allegedly got pregnant after she had consensual sex
out of wedlock and then had her baby aborted, stood trial in the Court of First Instance on Sunday.
A woman accused of getting pregnant
out of wedlock claims she was raped, Abu Dhabi Court was told
The mother told the police that Jassem was born
out of wedlock and had no identity documents.
The agent of Lebanese singer Amal Hijazi sent a press release in response to shocking news over a number of internet websites about Amal's support for having children
out of wedlock.
