I have just read a few posts that are complaining about "illegitimate children". This really concerns me. I hope that what people mean is children who don't know their father, not, truly children whose mom & dad aren't married, but, live together. It is 2007, and, I would think that most people are concerned with a child having 2 parents (if possible), but, not with a piece of paper that can be stamped "void" and divorced at a moment's notice....
My question is that: when you (if you do) write about "illegitimate children" do you mean absentee fathers as the issue, or, the lack of a piece of paper that says it is "official"?
2007-09-01 04:34:58 · 13 answers · asked by Amanda h 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
* I don't think that marriage should be discounted. However, I also don't think that it is a permanent solution. Divorce is so common that it occurs in over half of all marriages, and, I know of people that have lived together for 15 years, have children, and are great parents, but, have never married. I do know that legally (at least in Wisconsin) the birth of a child when parents aren't married, getting the father adjudicated (even if he signs the birth certificate) is necessary, and, it can cost $ to go through the courts to do this.....
2007-09-01 04:52:42 · update #1
There are cases of wealthy women that use sperm banks, or, simply raise a child by themselves because dad is a deadbeat. Is this a negative thing to you?
2007-09-01 04:54:21 · update #2
YAIS- I am honest. I live in WIsconsin (on the border with Illinois)- which is an hour from Shaumburg (Chicago suburb) or an hour and a half from downtown Chicago. If you would like to know, please email me, and, I will more than GLADLY give you my address, and, you can FREAKING mapquest it!!!!! Duh- Look at a map..... Chicago is near the border with Wisconsin... Is it not???? Give me a break....
2007-09-01 05:35:45 · update #3
OK I didn't know what "illegitimate children" are. So I searched it and it means that you can't inherit wealth from your father and that he has no legal responsibility to take care of you.
It is old and comes from back in the day when you couldn't prove who the father was. Naturally this situation happened often when the mother and father were not married to each other.
Bastards were not always illegitimate. They could inherit if their fathers claimed them as their children. Divorce was not easy in the old days and sometimes the parents could not marry even if they wanted to.
Children are not illegitimate today in the US and both parents have legal responsibility for taking care of their children whether they are married or not. As it should be.
BTW I think that when people here say illegitimate children they mean bastards. My parents didn't get married so I'm a real bastard! hehe! :)
Sigy - La Senorita de los Bridges
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2007-09-01 07:15:05 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ ~Sigy the Arctic Kitty~♥ 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
"Illegitimate children" are those born out of wedlock. There is no other definition.
Under Roman law and in most continental European countries, a child may be legitimated if the father formally recognizes the child as his and accepts financial responsibility, or marries the mother. This has never been the case in England and in many US states, a child must be adopted to become "legitimate."
In US Immigration law, an illegitimate child born outside the United States to an alien mother acquires US citizenship if his father legitimates him under the law of his domicile before the child is 21 or married.
An illigitimate child born outside the US to a US citizen mother did not acquire citizenship before 1934 but has acquired US citizenship automatically since 1952.
2007-09-02 13:26:37 · answer #2 · answered by BruceN 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to agree with the majority. Illegitimate children are born without the legal protection and status that marriage provides. With a marriage, paternity is established at birth as a point of law. Without marriage, paternity has to be established through testing. Inheritance is another issue as are visitation, health decisions and others. Legitimacy offers so much more to the child under the law.
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I've always felt that raising a child with a single parent is not the best environment for a child. That's not to say that single parents don't make good parents. Many do their very very best...but their best can't make up for the absence of a father or mother. It's a "make-do" arrangement --- not illegal (nor should it be....some have no choice at all), but not in the best interests of the child.
2007-09-01 04:56:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
An illegitmate child is one born out of wedlock. The divorce rates are different for every state too. A child that is raised in a home where the father is absent is referred to a child from a single parent household. When I say something about an illegitimate child I mean exactly the definition of the word. This does not belong in the immigration section.
2007-09-01 05:59:34 · answer #4 · answered by I See You 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think Conniekins has got it right! No child should be labeled illegitimate! They are human beings just like you. If they are flaunting the children, I'm sure it is because they are proud parents, married or not! Just as I may have a brag book and photos of my own children that I show to everyone. I think you have issues! Since when do you have to be married to be decent??
2016-04-02 22:02:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think people consider it more likely the child's birth was used to better the financial situation of the parent when the parent is illegal and the child doesn't socially keep up with the father. I saw a lot of that in comments about Elvira Arellano, her son's SS benefits for ADHD and the fact that no one ever heard anything about the father, at all.
2007-09-01 06:24:38 · answer #6 · answered by DAR 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To answer your question. If I ever write about illegitimate children you should assume that I mean a child produced by a union where the parents are not married.
That "piece of paper" or the lack thereof makes a huge difference... legally, morally and ethically. No amount of pretending can change the facts.
2007-09-01 04:44:10 · answer #7 · answered by Yak Rider 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Illegitimate children are born outside of marriage. Sorry, that's what they are called in polite society. There are not so nice terms too. That one, however, is the polite term for a child born to unmarried parents or outside of the legal marriage.
Don't kill the messenger.
2007-09-01 04:51:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Illegitimate means the parents were not married at the time. It has meant that since the dawn of time. Only the ideas of political correctness have confused some people.
2007-09-01 04:42:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
If I were to speak of illegitimate children, I would mean that the parents were not married at the time the children were born.
The term 'illegitimate' is used instead of the term 'bastard' in polite society.
2007-09-01 04:52:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋