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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Birth families were demanding a greater role in choosing an adoptive family for their babies, and birth mothers had more clout in the negotiating process as the stigma of having child out of wedlock eased.
But, since the idea is to promote marriage as the best foundation for the family, at a time when almost 40% of first-born children are born out of wedlock, these rights for heterosexual partnerships do not include equality with married couples for tax purposes.
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.
So, what did change, starting around 1960, to account for the decline in marriage rates, the sharp increase in divorce, and the explosion of out-of-wedlock births?
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