How To Use illegitimate child In A Sentence
- Outside his marriage, he had four illegitimate children (with one disputed), which may sound on the high side, but that was not unusual.
- For documentation of settler men having illegitimate children with slaves, free blacks, and mixed-race women, see H.F. Heese, Groep sonder grense. back Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
- Thousands of illegitimate children were denied adoption because the church could not countenance the thought that ‘the legal parent might be alive’.
- When you mention that, illegitimate children, that is one of the things which in a generation, twenty years or so, attitudes have changed wholesale.
- There was no such thing as an illegitimate child, a mother had simply to ‘name’ the child and if it was a son he could inherit part of its father's property.
- Inspired by a few facts from Errol Flynn's life, and rooting her story firmly in Jamaican history, Cezair-Thompson vividly imagines the life of Ida, who is little more than a child herself when she gives birth to her daughter May, the illegitimate child of 1930/40s movie star Errol Flynn - known as a swashbuckling adventurer on screen, and for his glittering parties and affairs off screen. The Pirate's Daughter: Summary and book reviews of The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson.
- Bloody and incessant feuds had sadly demoralized monastic life, and rendered church government extremely difficult, while the rough barons had intruded their illegitimate children into a large number of the livings, abbacies, and episcopal sees. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
- If a widow had an illegitimate child, outdoor relief was likely to be stopped altogether.
- Similarly, Martin Narey's call for a return to 1970s figures for baby adoptions suggests lack of awareness of the difference between contemporary adoption from care and historic "relinquishment" of illegitimate children. Letters: Adopting a child-centred approach
- As indicated above, another of the major problems for illegitimate children was the feeling that they were never secure members of their families.
