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Let us limit our thinking, for the time being, to the most modest claim—that all individuals, black and white, men and women, gay and straight, born in wedlock and out of wedlock, should be treated equally under the law.
When AFDC rolls began climbing in the late 1960s, fewer than 10 percent of American children were born out of wedlock.
Most children born out of wedlock are reported by their mothers to have been "wanted," but "not at that time."
(His older son, the one born out of wedlock, got neither.)
And where greater zealots might enlist "etiquette's weapon of disapproval" to try to restructure society and family life--sanctioning, say, births "out of what was sternly called wedlock"--Miss Manners demurs: "Miss Manners does not oppose the use of social pressure to encourage stable family life.