illegitimacy


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Synonyms for illegitimacy

the state or quality of being illegal

the condition of being of illegitimate birth

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Synonyms for illegitimacy

the status of being born to parents who were not married

unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law

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If vacuums of political illegitimacy are not sealed properly, Syria and Iraq will continue to host parasites capable of doing great damage internationally.
Those consequences are visible in the Court's approach to illegitimacy classifications, which sees their primary harm as punishing "innocent children" for parental "transgressions," leaving untouched the legitimacy of privileging marriage in public and private law.
These problems complicate an attempt to determine whether sectors of a society showed a "propensity towards illegitimacy." As no census was carried out until 1865, the sources for Cape Town in the period discussed lend themselves more readily to the calculation of illegitimacy ratios.
Robert Michael of the University of Chicago believes that the sudden widespread use of artificial contraception and the availability of abortion is responsible for "about half of the increase in divorce from 1965 to 1976." Wilcox cites George Akerlof, a Nobel prize-winning economist, who provides an economic explanation for why widespread use of artificial contraception resulted in an increase in illegitimacy, rather than a decrease as many predicted.
Of course, Young doesn't believe that, but there is a "perception." The demographic argument is a favorite of clever rejectionists, who feel that the eventual Arab majority further illustrates Israel's illegitimacy.
Presented with a tinge of the accepted conventions--a gallery, the social pressure to keep up with the latest trends--the audience absolved the work of its illegitimacy. As George Orwell said, there are some ideas so preposterous that only intellectuals (and perhaps the art world) will believe them.
Are Alabama, Michigan and Washington, D.C., to the illegitimacy bonus what some people think Paul Hamm is to the Olympic gymnastics gold medal?
Illegitimacy was a prominent political, social, and literary issue throughout the nineteenth century, and is a theme that the sensation novelist Wilkie Collins repeatedly returns to in his fiction.
Such acceptance has allowed for romances to break out of "tradition" and include controversial topics such as AIDS, illegitimacy and addiction--so long as the hero and the heroine live happily ever after.
The next chapter discusses women's issues in the United States including issues such as reproductive rights, work, illegitimacy and social rights for single mothers.
Is she really complaining of this, the illegitimacy, or of criminal behaviour, and do I detect something in the nature of class hatred rather than that of wrongdoing?
The writers have always striven to keep up with the times; we have had illegitimacy, adultery, murder trials, fraud and most recently horse abuse (eat your heart out, EastEnders).
Hanawalt's data suggest three important characteristics of Late Medieval English life: (1) the apparent indifference to the welfare of children under 4, as indicated by the fact that accidents among this age group during this period were eight times higher than in modern times; (2) the remarkable civility among family members, as evident by the rarity of interfamilial murders; and, (3) a cavalier attitude toward the nuclear family as one notes the existence of bigamy, concubinage, and a high degree of illegitimacy.