Not exact matches
Other writers have described other causes: the lobbying for same - sex marriage, the feminists» push for liberation
from marriage duties, their legislative victories in getting states to adopt unilateral divorce, the culture's glorification of single moms, and the financial incentives for
illegitimacy and divorce that flow
from the welfare, child support, and domestic violence bureaucracies.
Secondarily, there are «concentration effects,» a tendency for aberrant behaviors such as crime and
illegitimacy to flourish in the ghetto because of its isolation
from mainstream society.
The
illegitimacy of the Court's departures
from the Constitution is underscored by the fact that no Justice has ever attempted a justification of the practice.
After her husband's death, Edna becomes a powerful political figure, succeeding in removing the stigma of
illegitimacy by having that word stricken
from all future Texas birth certificates; in this way, she honors the memory of her own half sister, who had killed herself upon discovering she was born out of wedlock.