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Almost three in five births to unwed women are to women who are cohabitating with a partner.

These days, a child born to an unwed mother is much more likely to be part of a cohabiting family.

The shaming of unwed mothers is hardly limited to one religious tradition.

The other part of the female breadwinner equation focuses on the steep rise in unwed mothers.

Among women without college degrees, and of all races, unwed motherhood has become the norm.

Now, strange to say, though the haughty Princess was thus beautiful and wealthy, she was still unwed.

I guessed that his mother would rather keep her son by her side unwed—perhaps that he could not afford to marry.

Were it so, were the soul unwed to its mortal comrades, it would be no more than a moment's uplifted wave on an infinite sea.

Unwed, unfancied, ware of wiles, they fingerponder nightly each his variorum edition of The Taming of the Shrew.

And yet, notwithstanding the noble looks of her little son, the forester's daughter still remained unwed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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