Whereas 62% of all births in Iceland occur out of wedlock and 38% in Britain, in Japan the rate is just 1%.
My dad would have found it utterly unimaginable that 40percentt of today's American kids are born out of wedlock and one in three children is raised in a fatherless home, according to the bipartisan Committee for a White House Council for Men and Boys.
Born out of wedlock and raised in the West Indies, local wealthy men helped Hamilton get a college education after he was orphaned as a child.
But in recent years, one of Mr. Herenton's highest-ranking appointees was indicted, he admitted to fathering a child out of wedlock, and a witness in an unrelated corruption trial said he had given Mr. Herenton $9,000 in cash, although Mr. Herenton was not charged with wrongdoing.
The report describes "an increasing number of couples" living out of wedlock and a rise in divorce.
The compensations of continence are those that come from the assurance that the young man has of his virility, of his worthiness to take the hand of a pure wife in wedlock, and from the consciousness of his ability to establish and maintain a home, and to protect this home against all dangers.
The strangest and most moving moments in a novel many readers find harrowingly bleak concern Jude's thwarted love for Sue, their two children perforce born out of wedlock, and the belated appearance in their midst of "Little Father Time", the son that Jude has had with Arabella.
At last count there were at least eight weddings, three divorces, two children born out of wedlock, five children born in wedlock and four very happy same-sex marriages as a direct result of advice from yours truly.
The traditional nuclear family consisting of the stay-at-home mother and breadwinner father, welded in holy wedlock and raising the standard two offspring, now struggles to call itself "the norm".
"That argument," wrote Mr. Kennedy, "was rejected by the Tennessee Supreme Court, which maintained that its acceptance would necessarily lead to condoning 'the father living with his daughter... in lawful wedlock,' " and "the Turk being allowed to 'establish his harem at the doors of the capitol.' " We have a tendency to prohibit things simply because we don't like them.
