Only 16% of Asian-American babies are born out of wedlock, in contrast to 41% for the general population.

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Some 48% of Norwegians born in 1996 were born out of wedlock.

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Jennifer McKay Gold, 52, the mother of two children (now teens) born out of wedlock with Bren, filed suit in 2003, accusing him of breaking pillow-talk promises of more money.

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Back in 1965, 25% of black children were born out of wedlock, nearly one-third fewer.

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Most entrants have addresses supplied, mottoes are (sometimes oddly) translated and again, for the first time children born out of wedlock (more than 30% of all births in Britain, these days, though still quite a bit less common among the upper class) are sometimes acknowledged.

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Absolutely it is, I think, really too bad that we have 46 percent who are being born out of wedlock, but contrary to what she has said in her writings, Hispanics have a marriage rate that is equal to that of whites - 77 percent of Hispanic women will marry by the age of 30, compared to 81 percent of whites.

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And the two are still more closely linked than in most other countries in Europe: only 6% of Italian babies are born out of wedlock.

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Another cool thing about da Vinci: He was a man of intrigue, ensconced in secret societies, his paternity unresolved (he was born out of wedlock), perhaps divinely inspired as he clashed with the Roman Catholic Church a man who seemed to defy the confinements of any simple narrative.

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Case in point: The United States is undergoing a dramatic shift in childbearing so that half the children born to mothers under 30 are born out of wedlock.

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