Example sentences for: out-of-wedlock

How can you use “out-of-wedlock” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Liberals have tended to favor the explanation offered by William Julius Wilson, who, in a 1987 study, attributed the increase in out-of-wedlock births to a decline in the marriageability of black men, due to a shortage of jobs.

  • Celebrity fathers who don't want to know their out-of-wedlock offspring and celebrity mothers who don't want to know the fathers of their out-of-wedlock children have also been in the news.

  • If your family moves during your school years (ages 6-15), your chance of graduating high school falls by 16 percent, the chance that you'll be "economically inactive" (out of school and out of work) at age 24 rises by 10 percent--and, if you are female, your chance of getting through your teens without an out-of-wedlock birth falls by 6 percent.

  • Black employment, home ownership, academic achievement, and college enrollment are up; out-of-wedlock births, violent crime, poverty, and welfare enrollment are down.

  • Meanwhile, the WP front observes firm differences about gender on display in the Court's 6-3 decision to uphold the law that automatically grants U.S. citizenship to an out-of-wedlock child if the mother is an American, but not if only the father is.


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