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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.
One misstep in the Post's sum-up of Quayle's career: It cites his Murphy Brown speech about out of wedlock births as an embarrassing incident on a par with the potato spelling episode.
When AFDC rolls began climbing in the late 1960s, fewer than 10 percent of American children were born out of wedlock.
(His older son, the one born out of wedlock, got neither.)
The most troubling statistic for reformers: In Wisconsin, the proportion of children born out of wedlock doesn't seem to have improved lately.