"legitimate children" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to children born to parents who are married to each other. For example, "The couple had three legitimate children."
He died a year later, leaving no legitimate children.
Three were her legitimate children, and I was her fourth, illegitimate child.
It assumes that criminal sanctions are useful in coercing fathers to fulfill their support obligations to their legitimate children.
He contends that he consequently must be treated the same as a married father of legitimate children.
A revision to the constitution in 2002 added females and their legitimate children to the line of succession.
Louise died in 1939; she had no legitimate children; the boy she purportedly gave up for adoption died in 1907.
Unquestionably, Texas prosecutes fathers of legitimate children on the complaint of the mother asserting nonsupport and refuses to entertain like complaints from a mother of an illegitimate child.
The group of children who are illegitimate are distinguishable from legitimate children not so much by their status at birth as by the factual differences in their upbringing.
Incapable of keeping his "guid weely-willy p — le" in his pants, he produced an impressive number of bastards, as well as several legitimate children.
The "secular" nationalists of the ancient regime are now trying to disown their own legitimate children when they recoil fastidiously from the Hindu supremacists foaming at the mouth.
Names have little to do with paternity on any of the soaps; few legitimate children, for the most complicated reasons, have their fathers' names.
