Back in 1965, 25% of black children were born out of wedlock, nearly one-third fewer.
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For young males there's a sense that being a player means having children out of wedlock.
In 1884, Grover Cleveland was revealed to have fathered a son out of wedlock.
Buck's main crime seems to have been the fact that she'd had a child out of wedlock.
From humble origins (born out of wedlock on a Caribbean island), Hamilton moved ahead through his brilliance and hard work.
Only 16% of Asian-American babies are born out of wedlock, in contrast to 41% for the general population.
Then he had a child out of wedlock with another woman, she says.
The daughter of a sometime bootlegger, she had married and divorced young and produced two sons out of wedlock.
Estrada, 62, is candid about a private life that includes flocks of mistresses and children born out of wedlock.
On a personal note, Graff, 73, has acknowledged that he fathered a baby girl out of wedlock three years ago.
One of the most striking differences between black families and others is the proportion of children born out of wedlock.
When I look at the state of black America, with 72% of kids being born out of wedlock, I get angry.
Having a baby out of wedlock is a big stigma, leading to a steep rise in pregnancy terminations in recent years.
Today, 72% of black children are born out of wedlock, as are 53 % of Hispanic children and 36% of white children.
The prince has acknowledged having fathered two children out of wedlock, but only his legitimate offspring would be able to succeed him.
Whereas 62% of all births in Iceland occur out of wedlock and 38% in Britain, in Japan the rate is just 1%.
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We know as well that a child born out of wedlock is more likely to experience poverty and lack an adequate education.
Some 48% of Norwegians born in 1996 were born out of wedlock.
If you look at the children being raised out of wedlock, it is 67 percent who are being raised in two-parent households, among Hispanics.
Most indicators of socially undesirable outcomes, such as crime rates or the proportion of children born out of wedlock, have moved up, not down.
The court also extended the right of abode to children born out of wedlock to a parent who is a permanent Hong Kong resident.
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.
Most of his constituency's biggest challenges for instance, the fact that 70% of black children are now born out of wedlock are hard to blame on white people.
He has admitted fathering two kids out of wedlock while married to his first wife, Monica Pretelini Saenz, who died in 2007 after suffering a seizure.
The man had left his wife to reunite with his teenage love, and they had two children out of wedlock, the youngest just six months old.
Since few Asian women, unlike their North American or northern European counterparts, have children out of wedlock, the overall effect on already poor demographics could be catastrophic.
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This means ending tax and welfare incentives that discourage marriage and encourage children out of wedlock, rewarding work over unemployment benefits, and a host of other pro-poor policies.
Barack Obama said that if one of his daughters made a mistake and got pregnant out of wedlock, he wouldn't want her to be punished with a child.
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.
Some 70% of black babies are born out of wedlock.
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