born out of wedlock

born out of wedlock

Born to parents who were not married. ("Wedlock" is another term for matrimony.) His parents eventually married, but that boy was born out of wedlock.
See also: born, of, out, wedlock
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

born out of wedlock

born to an unmarried mother. The child was born out of wedlock. In the city many children are born out of wedlock.
See also: born, of, out, wedlock
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • wedlock
  • wrong side of the blanket
  • wrong side of the blanket, born on the
  • born on the wrong side of the blanket
  • woods colt
  • parentally challenged
  • be born that way
  • be/be born/be made that way
  • born and bred
  • bred
References in periodicals archive
In most jurisdictions, a child born out of wedlock does not have an automatic right to an intestate share of his or her father's estate.
and biological father is foreign is a child born out of wedlock to the
(a) The natural parents participated in a marriage ceremony before or after the birth of the person born out of wedlock, even though the attempted marriage is void.
It's high time a law was passed that somehow allowed children who are born out of wedlock here to have some kind of documentation, so that when their mothers are deported the children aren't left stranded at the mercy of strangers.
Therefore, the children of these couples would be regarded as having been born out of wedlock and, in accordance with Canadian citizenship and immigration law, could not be Canadian citizens.
Yasuhiro Okuda, law professor at Chuo University who has submitted an opinion on the case to the Supreme Court, said that in the past 20 years tens of thousands of children have been born out of wedlock to foreign mothers, citing data by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.
Now more than half of babies are born out of wedlock, only 23pc of the population is married with a child or children, 11pc are wed with no children, lone parents account for 13pc and 8pc are cohabiting.
They claim Poe was born out of wedlock because his parents' marriage occurred while his father, Allan Fernando Poe, was legally married to one Paulita Gomez.
The number of peers in one's social network who have children born out of wedlock also may have an impact on young males.
Babies born out of wedlock now outstrip babies born to married couples.
Other statistics released by the ONS reveal the number of births outside marriage continued its upward trend, with 40 per cent of children born out of wedlock compared with 30 per cent in 1990.
Law was born out of wedlock and abandoned during the Great Depression.
Children born out of wedlock are less likely to visit their fathers than are children born in wedlock.
According to the latest Census figures, one-third of all babies born in America are now born out of wedlock. It is true that in many cases, the unwed parents are a couple, and I personally know unmarried couples who have managed to create stable and happy homes for their children.
[42] The decree forbidding the designation of paternity on birth records when a child had been born out of wedlock created its own set of predicaments.