illegitimacy

IPA: ɪɫɪdʒˈɪtʌmʌsi

Examples of "illegitimacy" in Sentences

Mexican-American illegitimacy is much higher than non-Hispanic white illegitimacy.
When his illegitimacy is finally exposed, hopefully all the damage can be reversed!
[235: 1] The word illegitimacy is derived from the Latin _illegitimus_, meaning "not in accordance with law."
The stigma of so-called illegitimacy, parents not married when child was born, has been the cause of so many evils.
The growth in Hispanic illegitimacy is especially important because Hispanics keep increasing as a share of all new births, married or unmarried, up from 14.3 percent in 1990 to 23.8 percent in 2005 to 24.6 percent in 2007.
However, illegitimacy is a far less useful statistic than teen pregnancy, since unmarried 30-somethings having children isn’t exactly a social crisis, and 18-year-old girls running off to get married aren’t exactly enhancing their career prospects.
Mostly because of a large increase in illegitimacy since 1970, Lykken says, "across the land, but mainly in the inner cities, thousands of children aren't being brought up by, but only domiciled with, parents who are indifferent, incompetent, or unsocialized themselves."
Ascribing an intrinsic power differential to acts of appropriation, meanwhile, only obscures the specific act -- the "taking possession" -- and its questionable ethical nature -- its "illegitimacy" -- behind wider isues of political inequity which are arguably more important but more nebulous.