Back in 1965, 25% of black children were born out of wedlock, nearly one-third fewer.
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And there is, in fact, now high out-of-wedlock childbearing, almost 50 percent among Hispanics.
For young males there's a sense that being a player means having children out of wedlock.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal, suggested the law created a two-tiered system of wedlock.
According to the CDC, the out-of-wedlock birthrate for white children was just 2% in the 1960s.
Karane said she went to Jamelle's mother first to ask her daughter's hand in 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.
Almost 50 years ago, when the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed, the national out-of-wedlock birthrate was 7%.
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.
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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.
One in ten Britons (and a fifth of all people aged 25 to 34) now lives with a partner outside wedlock.
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.
Full-fledged wedlock should be allowed, the committee pronounced in November, with gay couples who wanted to adopt having joint custody over children.
Families are smaller, birthrates have dropped, divorce and out-of-wedlock births have soared.
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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.
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