> If people are voluntarily opting out of marriage and family
I'm not married, I'm in a long term committed relationship, I have kids. The article seems to think that being married and having kids is somehow the same. It's not.
I'm not married, I'm in a long term committed relationship, I have kids. The article seems to think that being married and having kids is somehow the same. It's not.
That's a well established definition of the word; if you Google 'define illegitimate' you'll get:
1. not authorized by the law; not in accordance with accepted standards or rules.
2. (of a child) born of parents not lawfully married to each other.
> The decline of marriage correlates strongly with reduced fertility rates as well.
Further, it looks at the data in aggregate so there can be lots of "but I.." comments without invalidating the data or the affecting the analysis.