unwed

Example Sentences

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“The rationale was, if the other girls knew your name they could tell others about your pregnancy,” said Wilson-Buterbaugh, author of “The Baby Scoop Era: Unwed Mothers, Infant Adoption and Forced Surrender.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2018

Dr. Phil Unwed parents fight each other in court; Charlamagne Tha God discusses anxiety.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2018

Unwed female mothers, on the other hand, were viewed as the “natural guardian” of their children.

From Slate • Jun. 13, 2017

As a baby, he’d been abandoned at the Emery Home for Unwed Mothers near Hattiesburg, Miss. His well-to-do adoptive father built levees along the Mississippi River’s tributaries.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2015

Unwed, and rather looked down upon by a family of married sisters and tolerant, good-humored brothers-in-law, and careless nieces and nephews.

From One Basket by Ferber, Edna