Word: wedlock
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...Hirshhorn, an art that is embraced in lawful wedlock...
...Victorian style, that he acquired an early appreciation of the austere forms of 20th century architecture. With affectionate detail he recalls his maverick mother, a shabby-genteel domestic in the house of a New York lawyer, who met the man's nephew and bore young Lewis out of wedlock. The boy's German grandfather, a retired headwaiter at Delmonico's, became the dominant figure of Mumford's early years, taking him on long walks about the city...
...wedlock affects careers
...obvious reason that so many women are giving birth out of wedlock is the steady decline of the social stigma against it. Girls are no longer thrown out of most high schools for getting pregnant, or packed off to a home for unwed mothers. Now whites, like blacks, are more likely to bear the child and refuse to put it up for adoption. In the late '60s and early '70s, about 71% of unwed white pregnant teen-agers and 26% of blacks married in haste before the birth of a child. By the late '70s, the number...
...knew how to care for her baby. "I'm going to dress it up real warm in little clothes, stuff like that. You know, be a mother." Says Jeanette Alejandro of Brooklyn, who dropped out of school after the eighth grade to have a baby out of wedlock: "I guess everybody wants a baby. Probably to fill in their life. They feel so bored. They got nothing to do with this life...