In the context of consuming mainstream music and movies, the word reverberates with illegitimacy.

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The social stigma of illegitimacy has disappeared, and single parent families are considered part of the norm.

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Marriage withers under easy divorce, subsidized illegitimacy, and the desire among progressives to make it anything and everything.

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Handouts prompt handouts, particularly subsidizing illegitimacy which spawns myriad social ills instigating still more spending in an insidious downward cycle.

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For me, it is this axiom that expresses the possible theoretical legitimacy of legal immigration (and the absolute illegitimacy of illegal immigration).

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The stigma of illegitimacy, combined with the relative ease with which an abortion can be obtained, means that almost all Japanese children are born to married couples.

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Studies continue to indicate that one of the contributing causes of poverty, illegitimacy, crime, inadequate education and other socioeconomic problems is the absence of married, committed parents in a family.

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Mr Magnet wants to restigmatise illegitimacy.

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