If," says Hitze, "the meagre sum of the assistance granted could lead to an increase of illegitimate births, this fact would be more shocking than the number itself.
We are not warranted, from the relative[249-1] number of illegitimate births, to draw too direct an inference in relation to the morality of a people.
The average of illegitimate births, though not infallible, is generally accepted as a fair test of the immorality of a people.
The proportion of illegitimate to legitimate children is about 1 to 5, the actual number of illegitimate births being as follows: Years Illegitimate Births.
B] It is but fair to say that the Swedes account for the large proportion of illegitimate births, by stating that many unfortunate females come up from the country to hide their shame in the capital, which is no doubt true.
He stated also that the surprising number of illegitimate births is partly accounted for by the fact that there are a great number of connections which have all the character of marriage except the actual ceremony.
The proportion of illegitimate births to the total births is now over 20 per cent, so that to every four legitimate children there is rather more than one illegitimate child.
In this connection Westermark points out that the more advanced is civilization, the greater is the number of illegitimate births, and the more widespread is prostitution.
Prostitution, marriage by purchase, religious marriage, disgrace attached to illegitimate births, conjugal and family rights of one or the other sex, etc.
No less than thirteen, or more than two-thirds, of the Eighteen Counties have an excessive number of illegitimate births.
The Scotman, whose statements are based on the report of the British Registrar-General, publishes the following statistics: “The proportion of illegitimate births to the total number of births is in Ireland 3.
The ratio of legitimate to illegitimate births, deduced from the observations of five years, is as follows: 2.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "illegitimate births" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
