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Similarly, in our study, women who conceived out of wedlock would be ostracised and subject to shame.

The Williams and Wedlock stands would be replaced to include new conference, exhibition and entertainment facilities.

The result, proponents of traditional marriage say, would be further rises in divorce rates and out-of-wedlock births.

When Jesse Jackson acknowledged last month that he had fathered a child out of wedlock, he said he would be "taking some time off to revive my spirit and reconnect with my family"; two days later he announced he was returning to the public stage.

An out-of-wedlock threesome, by his reasoning, would be O.K.

Who can say what the out-of-wedlock birth rate for blacks would be, absent chattel slavery?

As the sociologist Glenn C. Loury wrote recently in The New York Times: "Who can say what the out-of-wedlock birth rate for blacks would be, absent chattel slavery?

The prince has acknowledged having fathered two children out of wedlock, but only his legitimate offspring would be able to succeed him.

In his family's time, the story that he had children out-of-wedlock with a person of a different race would be the kiss of death for his legacy.

The wee ones born out of wedlock in Wisconsin and Louisiana arguably get the shortest ends of the stick, but a tiny tot from Idaho would be a little gem.

And both Democrats and Republicans generally agree that the country would be better off with fewer pregnant teenagers, fewer unwanted children, fewer absent fathers, fewer out-of-wedlock births.