From the ascension of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her death in 1901, as Prof. Himmelfarb shows, the crime rate, the poverty rate, and the rate of illegitimate births were not just stable, but actually declining. (firstthings.com)
True, some conservative arguments are specious — such as Charles Murray's contention that AFDC encourages illegitimate births — and conservatives» narrow focus on dependency has played into the hands of a Reagan administration prepared to blame the victims. (religion-online.org)
Marriage is designed to protect any neighborhood, any city, any nation from an abundance of illegitimate births. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)