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...Last week Commonwealth Statistician S. R. Carver revealed another interesting fact about Australian girls: seven out of every ten of Australia's teen-age mothers in 1951 conceived their first babies without benefit of marriage; 28% of all the year's firstborn children were conceived out of wedlock...
...take care of father, really wants to get married and go to South America with her man (John Gregson). The other daughter (Margaret Leighton), though weary unto drink of her empty London life, refuses to come home and take care of father. She has had a child out of wedlock, and cannot face the "perpetual pretense" of living with a man who "can't be told the truth...
...this point, the average movie plot might send the customers home, but this one goes right on to show Rugged Individualist Cooper falling in love with a native girl (charmingly played by U.S. Actress Roberta Haynes) who bears him a child out of wedlock.* Bored with light housekeeping in a grass hut, Cooper leaves the island, but returns during World War II and sees to it that his nearly grown-up daughter finds her Polynesian Mr. Right...
Detached View. In Los Angeles, after six months of wedlock, Mrs. Alzada Marriage sued for divorce...
Fine Print. In Los Angeles, Percy T. Martin willed life incomes of $300 a month to two women he identified as "friends," but stipulated that they remain unmarried, and refrain from "living with any man out of wedlock, or making any use of tobacco or alcoholic beverages or liquors...