out-of-wedlock child
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In addition, charging documents say a payoff went to a doorman who claimed to have a story about an out-of-wedlock child allegedly fathered by Trump.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2023
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
My nephew, meanwhile, keeps referring to his father’s wife as his stepmother, and my grandmother allows him to do so, saying it was “socially acceptable” that he not identify himself as an out-of-wedlock child.
From Slate • Jul. 14, 2014
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
