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Example sentences for: wedlock

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Young women will be less likely to have children out of wedlock, or at least partnership with a man, precisely because being a working single mom is a struggle.
Why not have a kid out of wedlock, collect your $230 a month in stamps, live with your mom and worry about going to work later?
The women DeParle dwells on are poster children for irresponsibility as a lifestyle: At every turn there are unexpected pregnancies, out of wedlock fatherless children, and abusive-cum-substance-abusive-cum-mooching boyfriends.
These trends are already starting to appear--the percent of black births that are out of wedlock has finally stopped growing, and the black teen birthrate has dropped 26 percent since 1991, to its lowest level since record-keeping began.
When AFDC rolls began climbing in the late 1960s, fewer than 10 percent of American children were born out of wedlock.