illegitimacy

The dwindling stigmas on illegitimacy and on unmarried sexual partners, legal contraception, more laws supporting women’s access to the workplace — things that some conservatives want to reverse — “made at-fault divorce look more and more off-putting.”

The election, Mr. Siziba said, had created “a crisis of illegitimacy where the state is turning against its own citizens.”

If you give people something you hurt them, because it weakens their dignity, it creates illegitimacy as they used to call it, it will make poor people poorer.

As I was reading the book, I remembered the illegitimacy I felt as a child when I realized my parents were unwed.

For Gaetz, who fancies himself the leader of the rebel rump, McCarthy’s collaboration with Democrats to keep the government open is proof of his illegitimacy.