(n.) A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard.
Example Sentences:
Wedlock
Definition:
(v. i.) The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.
(v. i.) A wife; a married woman.
(v. t.) To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most liberal 19% also accept pregnancy out of wedlock, or lack of economic support as a sufficient reason, but another 14% reject any basis for abortion, though among those some would accept a few criteria if the abortion were performed by another doctor.
(2) The inability of young people to obtain contraceptive advice until after the penalty of bearing an out-of-wedlock child received comment.
(3) In 2010, he publicly apologised for fathering a child out of wedlock , said to be his 20th overall.
(4) In Sweden, the illegitimacy ratio is currently close to 1 out-of wedlock birth in every 2 births.
(5) Increasingly, white youth are subject to many of the same conditions that have produced high rates of early and out-of-wedlock childbearing among blacks.
(6) There was a 30% drop in total out of wedlock births in 1967 in the study area.
(7) I said, ‘I want to make sure you had it right that you resigned in my office’, and he said, ‘Absolutely.’” Patterson also denied that Eastside is being unfairly selective in its application of Catholic dogma by allowing divorced people and those living together out of wedlock to continue working at the school.
(8) Neither the level of AFDC benefits nor the AFDC acceptance rate appear to serve as economic incentives to out-of-wedlock childbearing; nor does the availability of contraception and abortion seem to encourage teenagers to initiate sexual activity.
(9) Conception had occurred out of wedlock in 85% of the cases.
(10) This paper examines the practice of informal adoption as a response to out-of-wedlock pregnancy among 54 black urban adolescent females.
(11) When other factors are held constant, race not white, previous reproductive loss, short interpregnancy interval, out-of-wedlock birth, no prenatal care, and maternal age under 18 years or over 35 years each increase the risk of having an infant of low birthweight.
(12) Experience in counseling confirms the contention of several authors that some out-of-wedlock pregnancies stem from subconscious reasons.
(13) At 3-6 mo postpartum, NNS questionnaires were mailed to mothers of live infants born in wedlock, and responses were weighted to permit national estimates.
(14) It also, he writes in the Social Animal, led to welfare policies that "enabled lonely young girls to give birth out of wedlock, thus decimating the habits and rituals that led to intact families".
(15) They shame and blame women rather than respect our right to make our own reproductive health decisions,” Clinton said, in a clear swipe at former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who has been under fire this week for writing in 1995 that women should be shamed for having children out of wedlock.
(16) Whereas the proportion of women who legitimate births conceived out of wedlock declines sharply with increasing age among whites, the proportion stays very low for blacks in all 3 age-groups.
(17) In an email calling for broader awareness of the case, Michael Bunney, who organizes the LGBTQ community of the Seattle-based St Joseph’s parish, wrote that Eastside Catholic was inconsistent with “a policy that is selectively enforced against gay faculty but not against straight employees who are divorced or living together out of wedlock”.
(18) Comparatively many patients were born out of wedlock.
(19) They are the only ethnic group in Burma subjected to a two-child policy and severe travel limitations , while Rohingya babies born out of wedlock are denied entry to school and forbidden to marry.
(20) In addition, when the respondents' educational expectations were used as proxy measures of the potential opportunity costs of single parenthood, the results revealed that the higher their educational expectations, the lower their willingness to have an out-of-wedlock birth.