out-of-wedlock child

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In the 1880s, rumors of Grover Cleveland’s out-of-wedlock child led to a song from his Republican opponents: “Ma, ma, where’s my pa?”

From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2016

And Barbara would have her own out-of-wedlock child, after which she abandoned Aretha, who was born in 1942, and the three other Franklin-Siggers children in Detroit and moved to Buffalo, taking her new son.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2014

I had a letter last week from a young woman who was the out-of-wedlock child.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2012

There had also been rumors on the political circuit for years of a Schwarzenegger out-of-wedlock child, Mathews said, although the accounts could not be verified until now.

From Seattle Times • May 18, 2011

Utah laws and court decisions, she said, "make it virtually impossible for an out-of-state father to prevent the adoption of an out-of-wedlock child when the mother is determined to go forward."

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2010