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illegitimacyIn law, the status of a child born to a mother who is not legally married; a child may be legitimized by subsequent marriage of the parents. The nationality of the child is usually that of the mother.
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when marriage came late in life and many women never married, illegitimate births would have been frequent and those who married would be unusually likely to be pregnant; and that . Teenage mothers had 90 per cent of illegitimate births. Can compulsory sex education in school solve the problems of increases in illegitimate births, of venereal disease, of ignorance on the subject of sex? |
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