out-of-wedlock child
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In addition, charging documents say a payoff went to a doorman who claimed to have a story about an out-of-wedlock child allegedly fathered by Trump.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2023
By the early 1800s, men delayed marriage to pursue education and employment, and an out-of-wedlock child could thwart male upward mobility.
From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2018
In the 1880s, rumors of Grover Cleveland’s out-of-wedlock child led to a song from his Republican opponents: “Ma, ma, where’s my pa?”
From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2016
And Barbara would have her own out-of-wedlock child, after which she abandoned Aretha, who was born in 1942, and the three other Franklin-Siggers children in Detroit and moved to Buffalo, taking her new son.
From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2014
It's one thing to have had an affair and an out-of-wedlock child; it's another to pretend that child doesn't exist.
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2014
