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Example sentences for: out-of-wedlock

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Efforts by social scientists to explain the rise in out-of-wedlock births have been unconvincing.
Thus the 1994 chapter on "Youth: Pathologies and Behavior" led off with two big charts on teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rates since 1960, which were shown to be rising impressively.
In 1884, a Victorian electorate shrugged off Grover Cleveland's confessed paternity of an out-of-wedlock son.
Oddly, neither story includes any data on teen out-of-wedlock birth rates.
As a result, the rise in welfare benefits in the 1960s may have resulted in a decline in the black shotgun-marriage rate, and thus, in an increase in out-of-wedlock births.