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• When news breaks that the daughter of a Republican political figure is pregnant out of wedlock, the media quickly return to our Puritan roots and seek to hold certain people (usually conservatives) to a moral standard that culture has abandoned. —  WORLDMag.com
• I also know what it means to have two grandchildren born out of wedlock, a son struggling with alcohol, two grandchildren with serious disabilities, putting myself through graduate school while simultaneously caring for a husband and children and teaching full time -- and a whole lot more. —  Jihad Monitor
• Girls from good families have always gotten pregnant out of wedlock, albeit in much smaller numbers than today, when children are brought up in this decadent society of ours, where they are exposed to sexuality from early childhood. —  Vanishing American
• First you say that it's wrong to have a baby outside of wedlock, and then you say that you ruin your partner'f life by wearing a condom. —  timesofmalta.com
• The Manukau District Court heard how Maika was ashamed of having a child out of wedlock, as single mothers are looked down on in Samoan culture.

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