'unwed' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word when referring to someone who is not married. For example, "He was an unwed father when his daughter was born."
Better, such critics argue, for government to help create more living-wage jobs, and to ensure access to family-planning services to keep unwed births down, rather than to promote marriage as a route to economic success.Critics also seize on the programmes' track records.
Signs of life Getting strategic Our town Let them unwed Kicking the general's ass ReprintsIn Fremont, as in many other such towns, the Hispanic population has surged.
But suppose the government offers $10,000 in assistance to unwed mothers.
As he puts it, the land at stake on Marjan is partly owned by the mayor's "unwed wife and mother of his child".
Although most of the adverse economic effects of unplanned motherhood dissipate over time for whites, there are larger and more persistent negative effects on black unwed mothers.Nice methodological work.
Zog's son Leka, who lives in South Africa, still fancies getting the throne back.Unseemly father, underwear, unwed mother, potThough monarchies will not be restored any time soon in the ex-communist east, any swing that way is in contrast to the rest of Europe.
Others point to the increased availability of legal abortion in the 1970s, resulting in fewer children born to teenage, unwed and poor mothers: precisely the sorts of children who commit crimes at high rates during adolescence.
And there is mounting support on both sides of the political divide for rethinking social programmes to put more emphasis on personal responsibility.The collapse of the American family is a national tragedy: around 20m children don't live with their fathers, 1m babies a year are born to unwed mothers, 500,000 children are in foster care.
Rather than an indication of a greater work ethic among men after marriage, perhaps remaining at the office becomes a relatively more desirable option to going home.Frank W. HarrisSIR —Your briefing on marriage in America certainly proved the old saw that there are 'lies, damn lies and statistics.' My father was conceived by a poor, unwed girl of 15 and his dad was rarely around.
This tangle over inequality blinds Democrats to the possibility that causation may run in the opposite direction: that unwed parents raise poorer children.
The same pattern kept turning up: The percentage of children born to unwed mothers, teenage mothers and mothers who hadn't completed high school kept peaking in January every year.
