'wedlock' is an appropriate word to use in written English.
Wedlock can be used as a noun to refer to marriage, as in the example sentence, "The couple celebrated 10 years in wedlock."
It's not nearly as big a problem as the 40 percent of children who are born out of wedlock.
I don't really want to watch the stuff that goes on now – the fighting, the drama, the stories about rape, children out of wedlock … "That may be as life is, but I don't really want to know.
Jane was born in Dorset in 1925, out of wedlock.
King's marriage provoked Ian Paisley Jr into denouncing gay wedlock and love as repulsive, sparking a major row between the two unionist parties, with the UUP accusing the DUP of exploiting individuals' private lives for political purposes.
She had been born out of wedlock – her father was a minor grandee in Hereford whom Jane's mother had been nursing.
And, should there be a surprise on the way, you can point out that we no longer live in the 19th century where children out of wedlock will make you a social pariah.
And children brought up in poverty tend to be poor themselves.Out-of-wedlock birth rates (and divorce rates) are far lower, and marriage rates far higher, among the wealthier and better-educated.
However stark the overall rate decline, it is not spread evenly: marriage rates are higher, and out-of-wedlock birth and divorce rates lower, among wealthier and better-educated Americans.
But with them come rising out-of-wedlock birth rates.
In 1965 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, later a Democratic senator from New York, called for emergency federal intervention to aid in "the establishment of a stable Negro family structure", and justified it in part by an out-of-wedlock birth rate among blacks of 23.6%—half what it is today.With illegitimate births come single-parent homes, in which 35% of all American children lived in 2011.
Accidental pregnancies are still common; 40% of out-of-wedlock children are born to teenage mothers, and most of those pregnancies are unplanned.In this section We know what's best for your old age, why can't you see it?
