2006-07-10 05:54:02 · 13 answers · asked by rnash0305 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No child is illegitimate. God doesn't make mistakes. People do, but not God. God loves all and would never condemn a child. We are not born with sin. That's man-made BALONEY!
2006-07-10 06:02:50 · answer #1 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Generally, born out of wedlock is considered illegitimate. Conceived out of wedlock might just be an inconvenience of timing. The world is not a very charitable place and there are people who count the weeks out there.
Illegitimacy is now primarily a legal concept and holds no or little religious meaning.
2006-07-10 05:59:01 · answer #2 · answered by OPM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to state laws (general principles of course, because each jurisdiction varies), a child is deemed illegitimate if born outside of the bonds of wedlock, if the father has not taken additional legal steps to acknowledge the child, or if the father has not held the child out to the public as his own.
Any child born within the course of a marital relationship is rebuttably presumed to be the child of the husband, but this presumption can be overcome by credible showing the contrary (ie: a paternity test which excludes the husband from the possibility of being the father).
Conception is not the standard by which illegitimacy is based, but birth is.
2006-07-10 06:18:25 · answer #3 · answered by SedaCanela 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just born out of wedlock. it is a holdover from medieval inheritance laws
as a very recent example Prince Albert Monaco
has recently admitted to having two children out of wedlock
because he is not married these children will never inherit his throne.
when he does marry and have a child that child will inherit
the main purpose of this kind of inheritance law was to ensure the person who inherited was educated since childhood with the duties, responsibilities and other management skills needed in ruling. over a large estate that included taking care of the people that belonged to the estate.
there were other purposes involved also as marriages were not for love but to bind two estates closer together.
the wife's dowry land and other holdings became her husbands at the time of marriage.
the child of such a union would normally inherit everything
at his/her fathers death.
the widow and her powerful family really objected if her dead husbands kid by someone else inherited her dowry.
2006-07-10 06:22:40 · answer #4 · answered by rosevallie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter was both and my Family turned the other cheek at 1st but after awhile they came around. Look how many children are being born out of wedlock.
2006-07-10 06:02:08 · answer #5 · answered by mommy2faithat19#3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's what the law of the land states---- but if the woman marries before the child is born --- the child isn't illegitimate -- because the law considers the child the product of the married couple...
2006-07-10 05:59:07 · answer #6 · answered by jaimestar64cross 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term illegitimate has only to do with a society's normal standards. All children are children of God. It is society that is screwed up.
2006-07-10 06:00:15 · answer #7 · answered by Brent 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Illegitimate in what sense? Like, the father doesn't have to take care of it? Jesus was illegitimate, but Joseph still took care of him.
2006-07-10 05:59:00 · answer #8 · answered by Maria Isabel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't consider any children born illegitimate. i think that is a very old, out dated view of life.
2006-07-10 05:58:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I have heard that it is born out of..., but yet the same people said life begins at conception. Just another example of people interpreting for their own ends.
2006-07-10 06:20:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋