0 (legal or old-fashioned) the state of being married -- hidup sebagai suami isteri
The child was born out of wedlock.
Pregnancy outside of wedlock and adultery were practices that would occasion disciplinary action against those involved.
Levene's study explores the characteristics of children entering the hospital between 1741 and 1760, demonstrating that up to a third were born in wedlock.
Legitimacy, its opposite, is the state of having been born within wedlock, having specified rights and obligations.
Children out of wedlock were most likely raised in single family households or abandoned to the ghastly fate of orphanages or the street.
Illegitimacy is taken to be the state or condition of having been born out of wedlock, that is, to parents who are not recognized as married.
The ratio, or percentage of births which occur out of wedlock, is, however, of considerable comparative interest.
Between 1840 and 1850 there were 993 births outside wedlock in the 24 parishes studied here.
Thus, thirty-two of the unwanted children were born out of wedlock as against nine of the control children.
