Sentence examples for wedlock between from inspiring English sources

No more voracious parasite ever sucked at the heart of pure society and moral status than the one which welcomes or recognizes everywhere the sacred ties of wedlock between Africa and America.

In Port Clinton itself, the epicenter of the local economic collapse in the 1980s, the rate of births out of wedlock quadrupled between 1978 and 1990, topping out at about 40 percent, nearly twice the race-adjusted national average (itself rising rapidly).

And he talks about Dickens's feelings: the "shame, doubt and anguish" felt by a married Victorian in a love out of wedlock; the conflict between desire and duty, and the plain fact he "adored Nell".

He cites one study which found that the median number of partners for a straight American adult male was six, compared with ten for a gay and that difference might have been even smaller had gays been able to benefit from the stabilising effects of marriage, he suggests.No culture or society has hitherto countenanced wedlock other than between a man and a woman.

A link in the network between two families is a 'parental union' between a male and a female having at least one common child through marriage or out of wedlock.

The controversial Wasserstein was married four times and had six children with three different women, one out of wedlock, leading to an inheritance dispute between his heirs.

It's not anything genetic; it's cultural," said Clegg, pointing to the disparities in out-of-wedlock birth rates between black and white families. .

Worse still, there is a direct correlation between kids born out of wedlock and higher rates of crime.

"The protection extends to all children, without discriminating between those born within or outside 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.

While some advocates of same-sex marriage argue that marital status would confer legitimacy on same-sex relationships, these critics argue that the state should not confer legitimacy (and hence, implicitly, illegitimacy) on consensual adult relationships, any more than it should so discriminate between children born in or out of wedlock.