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Example sentences for: wedlock

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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.
I think you are making a mistake to equate distaste for wedlock with libertinism.
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?
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.