Broadmoor's first patients were women and some might have found themselves there simply for being unmarried mothers, according to Mr Stevens.

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Now that unmarried mothers have become the new normal, one would think that the drive to stigmatize them would ease up.

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Bethany Home was a Protestant place for "fallen women" and unmarried mothers.

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His daily talk-in on the airwaves, where Irish people first publicly discussed then-taboo subjects like unmarried mothers, homosexuality, divorce and contraception, has run for 26 years.

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The American divorce rate doubled between 1960 and 1996, and the percentage of births to unmarried mothers climbed steadily from 5% in 1960 to 32% in 1996.

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Radical Islamists are compiling a list of unmarried mothers in northern Mali, raising fears of cruel punishments such as stoning, amputations and executions, a senior United Nations official said this week.

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Unmarried teen mothers under 18 must stay in school and live with an adult to receive payments.

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Tens of thousands of babies of unmarried, mostly teenage mothers, were thought to have been taken by the state and given to childless married couples.

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" Even more striking, the study went on to highlight, "a high proportion of all unmarried fathers say that they want to be involved in raising their child, and the mothers say they want the father's involvement.

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