Sentences with phrase «of a child born out of wedlock»

The young fathers of the children born out of wedlock present one of the main barriers to more successful marriages and fewer non-marital births.

In Florida, having a father's name on the birth certificate of a child born out of wedlock creates a legal presumption of paternity, but does not guarantee the father's rights.

Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker, in their recent book Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think About Marrying, describe what's been called the «Second Demographic Transition»: low fertility, plummeting marriage rates, and an increasing percentage of children born out of wedlock.

For example, the mothers of the vast majority of the children born out of wedlock are racial minority teen - agers who come from broken families living below the poverty level.

Fathers of children born out of wedlock visit and pay even less.

He litigated major law reform and class action cases in the federal court of appeals and Supreme Court on Social Security, Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, SNAP / Food Stamps and other public benefits issues, and the rights of children born out of wedlock.

American men much more readily acknowledge that they are the legal father of a child born out of wedlock when the woman involved is more affluent, educated, and healthy.

Yet it is a sad fact that divorces occur in the United States nearly 50 percent of the times and when a divorce occurs, we have to deal with not only divorce issues, but also family issues as well, such as needing a name change in a divorce, division of marital property, taxation issues, legitimation of children born out of wedlock and more.

In Massachusetts, courts use several criteria to establish custody of children born out of wedlock; custody can be awarded to the mother, the father or to both parents together.

The custodial parent of a child born out of wedlock has the right to request that the noncustodial parent make a financial contribution to the child's care in the form of child support.

Because the nonmarital birth ratio is a function of (1) the out - of - wedlock birthrate (births per 1,000 unmarried women), (2) the marriage rate, and (3) the birthrate among married women (births per 1,000 married women)- the share of all children born out of wedlock has risen over the last thirty years, in large measure, because women were increasingly delaying marriage, creating an ever larger pool of unmarried women of childbearing age, and because married women were having fewer children.

Should society try to cope with the growing epidemic of teenage pregnancies and single parents and with the feminization of poverty by requiring states to list the name of the father on the birth certificate of a child born out of wedlock?