A unanimous Supreme Court on Monday stuck down a law that makes birthright citizenship harder for children of unwed fathers to obtain than children of unwed mothers.
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In delivering the opinion of the court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the equal protection infirmity in requiring a longer requirement for unwed fathers than for unwed mothers is clear.
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AIDS also showed how cruelly unwed partners could be treated.
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Homes for unwed mothers, welfare hospitals, and prisons were targeted.
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Many of these girls are unwed mothers and receive public assistance.
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Geraldine was an unwed teenager when Nakesha was born in 1970.
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What is more, an unwed, heterosexual man can only adopt a boy.
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In 2015 two-fifths of all American babies were born to unwed mothers.
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His first clients were unwed pregnant women, many of whom wanted illegal abortions.
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Young, unwed mothers are not often met with a chorus of congratulations and cheer.
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For unwed U.S. mothers in the same situation, the requirement is only one year.
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For unwed U.S. mothers in the same situation, the requirement was only one year.
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The marriage was a way to keep me from being an unwed teen mother.
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The numbers of unwed women — or women who simply never married — started to grow.
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The Supreme Court explained this approach most recently in an opinion two years ago by Justice Ginsburg in an immigration case concerning a statute that favored unwed mothers over unwed fathers in their ability to confer American citizenship on a child born overseas.
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"You've broken up with Lenny, and you come home as an unwed mother," Glenn says.
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Could a public business owner refuse service to an unwed mother, citing their religious beliefs?
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The shorter requirement for unwed citizen mothers is itself an exception to the general rule.
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Danforth said parents of minor, unwed girls cannot be given an absolute veto over abortions.
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His mother was an unwed little runaway from the hills of Kentucky, who didn't want him.
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Ms. Purinton was 18 and unwed when she became pregnant in her hometown, La Porte, Ind.
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Levites therefore had to live "by God and for God," just as the unwed priest does.
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The board said Morales‐Santana's father had not satisfied the physical residency requirements for unwed fathers.
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Low I.Q., they argued, is to blame for poverty, welfare dependency, crime and unwed pregnant mothers.
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It could easily be applied to unwed mothers or people living together out of wedlock, they say.
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Unwed and struggling with addiction and poverty, McCorvey sought a legal way out of her current situation.
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One man hopes his case will change how a decades-old New York law treats unwed fathers.
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In order to satisfy the law, the unwed father would technically have to send payments to the government.
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This lucid and well-researched book examines the rise of autonomous unwed women and their impact on society.
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It could impact countless Americans, including women, racial minorities, religious minorities, unwed parents, interracial couples, and so many others.
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Dr. Payton and other critics argued that focusing on unwed mothers and their children debased blacks and blamed victims.
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But for unwed fathers, the prebirth residency requirement is five years (it was 10 years before a 1986 amendment).
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DUBLIN — For decades, Irish society stigmatized unwed mothers, pressuring them to give up their newborns, often in shadowy adoptions.
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"These mothers do not have the courage to fight for their own rights," she said, referring to unwed mothers.
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Sebasitana's mother is an ardent pro-life activist who runs an orphanage for the children of unwed mothers in Brazil.
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When I told my Mormon friends about my pregnancy, they were sad at first (unwed mother) but then ecstatic (baby).
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When the couple wed in 1966, they were forced to elope because Parton's record label preferred her to stay unwed.
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Loners can apply for flats of their own, but only if they are still unwed by the age of 35.
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When they wed in 1966, the pair were forced to elope because Parton's record label preferred her to stay unwed.
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Unwed American mothers, meanwhile, are only subject to a 85033-year U.S. residency requirement to give their children U.S. citizenship.
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Unwed American mothers, meanwhile, were only subject to a one-year U.S. residency requirement to give their children U.S. citizenship.
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A White House spokesman criticized the "glorification of the life of an unwed mother" on the morning after the speech.
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In "Expecting," a school principal tells an unwed teacher that as a single mother, she would set the wrong example.
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Pressure also came from some of the wives, she said, as former classmates urged the unwed to stick with the militants.
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They had a daughter, who was born at a home for unwed mothers and put up for adoption as an infant.
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She's unwed, probably would prefer to skip her period and is more forthright about when it's that time of the month.
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She was an unwed spinster by traditional standards — but she considered herself twice married, at least in a spiritual sense, to women.
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With abortion then illegal in Canada, and unwed motherhood anathema to polite society, Mitchell gave the baby, a girl, up for adoption.
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Sent to a home for unwed mothers in Los Angeles, she gave birth to a daughter, whom she put up for adoption.
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" In the meantime, she added, the law's "now-five-year requirement should apply, prospectively, to children born to unwed U.S.-citizen mothers.
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Attitudes toward single women have repeatedly shifted — and part of that attitude shift is reflected in the names given to unwed women.
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When the snide captain criticizes him for living unwed with Marie and their young son, Wozzeck says that poor people cannot afford virtue.
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They could get sent there for being unwed mothers or not having the right manners and undergo all of these crazy shock therapies.
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US families are looking abroad in the first place because of changing mores and laws surrounding unwed parenthood, reproductive health care, and abortion.
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Unwed and poor, she simply wanted an abortion after becoming pregnant for the third time and could not get one in the state.
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An unwed mother can transmit her citizenship as long as she herself has lived in the United States for at least one year.
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But the shorter period for unwed mothers, she wrote, was an exception to a general rule, one that also applied to married parents.
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Birth control, abortion and society's willingness to accept unwed mothers were factors in the steady decline of healthy infants put up for adoption.
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His mother, Kathleen Maddox, had been raised in an oppressively religious household and was an unwed teen mother, abandoned by Charles's biological father.
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In that case, the justices found that a state could not deny an unwed father his parental rights without demonstrating that he was unfit.
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Their child, Bosch discovers, was delivered in St. Helen's Home for Unwed Mothers, where infants given up for adoption are taken away at birth.
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At issue is a 1952 federal law that makes birthright citizenship harder to obtain for children born abroad to unwed American fathers than mothers.
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Our mother was an unwed teenager when she gave birth to us, and she was forced by her family to keep away from her children.
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Kate suggests they just go get married at the courthouse if them being unwed is what's going to freak out her future mother-in-law.
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Matt and Melanie Capobianco then began their fight to have Veronica returned, arguing federal law does not define an unwed biological father as a parent.
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WASHINGTON — Unwed mothers and fathers may not be treated differently in determining whether their children may claim American citizenship, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
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I went to a home for unwed mothers in Manhattan on Madison Avenue, in a very ritzy section, with other women all in the same condition.
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Before reforms crept into Texas, I was aghast to meet a woman keeping her maiden name when she was married; or, worse, living in unwed sin.
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In 1535, an unwed mother named Agnes Peppin enters Shaftesbury Abbey, leaving behind her beloved butcher father and pinch-faced mother and giving up her child.
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The ensuing controversy about building a series around the stereotype of black unwed mothers and absentee fathers led to the show being canceled before it was broadcast.
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If a woman was going to have a baby out of wedlock, she went away and had it in an unwed mother's home, and the child disappeared.
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The son of an unwed teenage waitress, Clary Linnea Lindstrom, and an unemployed father of Russian-Swedish parentage, Nikolai Gädda, he was christened Harry Gustaf Nikolai Gädda.
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Gay, lesbian and trans people are told that God condemns them, unwed mothers that they are living in sin, and many natural human desires are deemed evil.
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The commission is charged with examining the social and historical reasons for these institutions, to which Irish society had long relegated vulnerable, unwed mothers and their children.
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But Kumar said traffickers often tried to get hold of these babies before the parents - often unwed mothers - made it to the government department to surrender the child.
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She was jilted at the altar by a man twice her age, and then her second fiancé was killed by Nazis in Germany — leaving her pregnant and unwed.
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I felt the collective trauma again reading about Tuam and felt a cosmic wave realizing how deeply entrenched the stigma really was toward unwed mothers and their children.
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" She went on, " Some would look at me and say I was an unwed mother, but God looks at me and says I'm the president of a seminary.
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" She went on, " Some would look at me and say I was an unwed mother, but God looks at me and says I'm the president of a seminary.
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A nun and another worker at a shelter for unwed mothers run by Mother Teresa's charity in eastern Indian have been arrested for allegedly selling a baby, police said.
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Other efforts include a cash incentive, where the state transfers a sum of money to the girl's bank account if she remains in school and unwed at age 18.
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She was born to an unwed mother in a Brooklyn hospital, where she stayed for three weeks until she was transferred to a nearby orphanage, the Angel Guardian Home.
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Justices on the Supreme Court appeared to agree Wednesday that it is unconstitutional to make birthright citizenship harder to obtain for children born abroad to unwed fathers than mothers.
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For decades, Irish priests zealously protected their communities from what they saw as the moral dangers posed by sexual promiscuity, unwed mothers and impoverished children, sometimes orphaned or neglected.
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His proselytizing, the contempt he had directed at working class black people, unwed mothers and their criminal sons, had made his own moral fiber a matter of public concern.
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Under the law, unwed American fathers must have 10 total years of U.S. residency, including five after the age of 14, to confer citizenship on a child born overseas.
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This cycle predestines her to end up exactly where her mother ended up all those years ago: in Stars Hollow, unwed and pregnant by a rich and irresponsible louche.
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Terrell's mother, who wasn't married when she became pregnant, put her newborn son up for adoption after he was born at a home for unwed mothers in Pilot Point, Texas.
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So a musical retelling of their life together — their decades as an unwed couple, then marriage in middle age to protect their children's inheritance — makes a certain kind of sense.
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Catherine Corless made it her mission to unearth the dark Irish secret of the lost children of Tuam — where hundreds perished in a home for unwed mothers and their babies.
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Ireland has begun grappling in recent years with the legacy of its treatment of unwed mothers, as scandal after scandal from its past as a strongly Roman Catholic country emerge.
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And with the film's most endearing performance, Sarah Steele plays Diwata Jones, the brazen theater nerd who's outraged after the unwed pregnancy story line in Once Upon a Mattress is removed.
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His unwed teenage mother gave her child to relatives to bring up when he was still an infant, and by the age of six, Thornton found himself working in the fields.
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Ireland's practice of placing thousands of unwed mothers into servitude in so-called Magdalene laundries, designed to rehabilitate what the church considered "fallen" women, did not end until the mid-1990s.
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And so Claire, after many years and many husbands, journeys back to the squalid little town — called Slurry, in Kushner's version — that rejected her as a pregnant, unwed 16-year-old.
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Ms. Corless is quite shy, but with each visit she revealed a little more about her personal stake in a case concerning the historic mistreatment of unwed mothers and their children.
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After organizing what it advertised as "the first Black Women's art exhibition in known history," the group turned its second show into a benefit for black unwed mothers and their children.
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A child born abroad to an unwed citizen mother has citizenship if the mother lived in the United States for at least one year at some point prior to the child's birth.
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More broadly, conflicts over race, immigration, and birthright citizenship, not to mention the gender discrimination Isabel Gonzalez faced as an unwed mother, continue to occupy a painfully central place in American politics.
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For example, subsidies for purchasing public housing apartments are mostly granted to married couples, making it tougher for unwed and single parents who tend to be more economically vulnerable, she pointed out.
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When my mom came home at age 22 and said she was pregnant, aside from the general disappointment parents feel when your unwed young daughter says she's knocked up, my grandmother was thrilled.
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The law requires unwed fathers to have 10 total years of U.S. residency, including five years after the age of 14, to confer citizenship on a child of theirs who is born overseas.
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Around this time, there were also unwed mothers who'd been abandoned by the rotten male scoundrels in their life—young women repulsed by men leering at them on buses and in college corridors.
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What they would achieve instead is a world where these revolutions continued to dominate, but without the tools to limit the costs in unwed motherhood, absent fathers and the spread of female poverty.
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The same law made it much easier for unwed mothers to transmit citizenship to their children, requiring them to have lived in the United States for a year before their child was born.
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They were worried they would be rejected by family or community members who might cast them as loyal to Boko Haram because they were unwed mothers or had been forcibly married to fighters.
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Illegitimate infants were born across all social classes, to poor unwed mothers as well as wealthy noblemen (who sometimes impregnated their servants and slaves to produce wet nurses for the family's legitimate child).
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Ireland knows the ravages of clericalism first hand, from its sex abuse scandals to forcing the adoption of the children of unwed mothers to many other exploitations of what was for decades authoritarian power.
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In one scene, when Leslie finds herself pregnant and unwed, Shirl unleashes a torrent of terrible names at her — though they give way to sweet baby talk, a page later, when Jarrett is born.
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" He had harsh words for unwed black women, who he said were "having children by five, six different men," as well as black men who "have pistols and they shoot and they do stupid things.
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Meanwhile, the Great Society's approach was to help single mothers be as successful in parenthood as possible, which was admirable in getting past the Victorian contempt for unwed mothers that had prevailed so recently before.
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A local Right to Life group would argue that pregnant teens shouldn't be "forced into unwed motherhood," while a NARAL chapter would call marriage a "human right," one that can help teens escape dire home lives.
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When Keller writes that marriage helps a couple become their "future-glory selves," he's praising the power of personal growth in a deep loving relationship, which is something I understand despite being unwed and un-Christian.
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As best as I can gather, in May of 1944 my unmarried 20-year-old mother traveled several hundred miles to an unwed mothers' home, gave birth to me and then gave me up for adoption.
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Four years ago, an unmarked grave with the remains of hundreds of babies was found there, on the grounds of a former Church-run home for unwed mothers and their children, shocking the country once more.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether gender inequity in U.S. immigration law over granting citizenship to children born abroad to unwed American-citizen parents - favoring mothers over fathers - violates the U.S. Constitution.
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The big picture: Separate from the sexual abuse scandals roiling the Church across the rest of the globe, Ireland has a history of forced adoptions pushed by the Church that saw newborns taken away from unwed mothers.
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I was living in Boston in the late 1950s and 60s, married and delivering my first of three daughters in a Catholic hospital in Dorchester run by nuns who also ran an adjacent home for unwed mothers.
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In the 19th and 20th centuries, "fallen" or "errant" young women, as they were labeled, were hustled away to the Magdalene Laundries or mother-and-baby homes, which were essentially prisons for unwed mothers run by nuns.
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Imogen Poots's turn as a troubled, unwed mother living on the margins in "Mobile Homes" presents a terrific showcase for her abilities: The tense dance of anguish, joy, panic and hope on her face is often riveting.
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The arrests were made after the state's Child Welfare Committee registered a complaint that the women sold an infant born to an unwed mother at the Nirmal Hriday shelter in the state capital, Ranchi, to a childless couple.
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Her story has echoes in the movie "Philomena," in which Judi Dench plays an Irish woman who was forced to give up her baby for adoption as a young unwed mother and decades later tries to find him.
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By 1960, DeParle notes, the program was 40 percent black, and while the program initially targeted widows to the exclusion of divorcées and unwed mothers, almost two-thirds of recipients by that year fell in the latter category.
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On the last day of his three-day visit to Bangladesh, which came after meetings in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, the pope went to a home in Dhaka founded by Mother Teresa for orphans, unwed mothers and destitute elderly.
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For ten seasons as the progressive, unwed female newscaster, the 70-year-old actress tackled groundbreaking issues like abortion, single motherhood, breast cancer, and medical marijuana — inspiring national conversations (and in the case of Dan Quayle, conservative outrage).
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As documented in Ann Fessler's book, The Girls Who Went Away, during the mid-248s through the mid-272s, known as the Baby Scoop Era, teenagers and unwed young women were usually not given a choice to parent.
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The blood was kind of meant to be, like... I mean, in some ways, too, we were kind of touching on the issue of abortion, unwed mothers, and going back to the theme of a woman's reformatory as well.
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But in the intervening decades a clerical sexual abuse scandal, the tearing of children away from unwed mothers and other awful abuses against vulnerable Catholics have hastened a blooming of secular modernity and the evaporation of the church's authority.
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She also noted the new willingness to confront the systemic practice of forced and illegal adoptions, often without records, which preserved an illusion of Catholic chastity while depriving unwed mothers of their children and children of their birth identities.
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The church lost much of its credibility in the wake of scandals involving pedophile priests and thousands of unwed mothers who were placed into servitude in so-called Magdalene laundries or mental asylums as recently as the mid-1990s.
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In it, married women convene on the fourth floor, married men on the seventh, and unwed men and women gather on the eighth floor, the unnamed source told NoCut News, which was reported by the South China Morning Post.
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One adoption agency owner, who did not wish to be identified, said he often received calls from waitlisted families saying they had been offered a child from an unwed mother at a price and wonder if they should go ahead.
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The clash of exasperated women and condescending men was the fuel for many a past episode, not to mention the character's meta-feud with Vice President Dan Quayle, who attacked the show in 1992 when her character became an unwed mother.
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They used an unwritten, extralegal power — often at the urging of scandalized family or neighbors — to send such women and children to Dickensian facilities like industrial schools, Magdalene Laundries (workhouses run by Catholic orders) and homes for the pregnant and unwed.
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In recent years, the church's role and reputation have been eroded by revelations about how its people and institutions abused that power — including widespread sexual abuse and the mistreatment of unwed mothers and their children in homes that resembled prisons.
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The question for the court, she continued, was what choice Congress would have made had it known that the exception was constitutionally vulnerable: Would it have extended the exception to unwed fathers, or would it have withheld it from the mothers?
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The state's highest court struck down an earlier provision requiring unwed fathers to be living with their child's mother in order to have a say in an adoption, but it has not directly ruled on other aspects of the statute.
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This period saw the spread of maternity homes where millions of unwed pregnant women were sent to live in confinement and deliver their babies in secret—what many of these mothers now call the "Baby Scoop Era"—before relinquishing them to infertile couples.
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Returning to television, she won an Emmy playing an unwed mother in the 1970 TV movie My Sweet Charlie, but her disturbingly vacant, disjointed acceptance speech – it would have gone viral, if the Internet existed then – caused speculation about drugs or alcohol abuse.
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The fact of it is as inescapable as it is material to the charges against the indicted individuals: Their multiplicity of wives––the majority of them technically unwed welfare mothers on government assistance––is what allows the alleged fraud to take place.
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By the light of a quarter moon one night in 1917, an unwed 18-year-old girl leaves her newborn daughter in her uncle's pear orchard in hopes that the mysterious people who come to steal the pears will take the baby too.
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Government inquiries and independent research by scholars like Cole have recently brought to light the experiences of hundreds of single or unwed mothers-to-be during this period, who recount being routinely drugged, lied to, emotionally and physically assaulted, and coerced by authorities.
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Hundreds also gathered in the western town of Tuam for a vigil at the site of a former church-run home for unwed mothers where an unmarked grave with the remains of hundreds of babies stored in underground chambers was found in 2014.
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Instead on Sunday's flight, he blamed the media for promoting an "atmosphere of guilt" around suspected clerics and shared that until his visit he "had never heard" about Ireland's notorious mother and baby homes, where children were ripped away from unwed mothers.
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But to return to the big problem: Why do we feel compelled to hide having cosmetic surgery, sneaking around as if we were unwed mothers in the 1950s, with clandestine conversations about doctors and extended stays out of sight or out of town?
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Lawyers for Ping, an immigrant from China whose surname is being withheld to protect the identity of his children, are now appealing that decision in what they hope will be a test case that changes how the decades-old law treats unwed fathers.
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It follows, then, that the discovery of the remains of a number of children up to age 3, in what may have been the sewage tanks of a former home for unwed mothers run by Catholic nuns, should be another "quicklime" moment.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's government on Tuesday approved the exhumation and reburial of the decades-old remains of hundreds of babies left in unmarked graves at the site of a former church-run home for unwed mothers in the western town of Tuam.
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India's government ordered the immediate inspection of every shelter run by the Missionaries of Charity on Monday amid claims of child theft lodged against Amima Indwar, who worked at a shelter for unwed mothers in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand state in eastern India.
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Morales focuses on an immigration statute that defines a child's eligibility to U.S. citizenship if born to unwed parents outside of the U.S. Further, the case looks into question whether U.S. citizenship of the father holds more weight than the U.S. citizenship of the mother.
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How can the author take a classic script — basically, a silly woman plots to marry off her five unwed daughters, couples fall in and out of love, and situations are dissected by a narrator of uncommon wit and perspicacity — and make it her own?
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" Both women keep lists: Ro's is a self-flagellating inventory of reasons it's a bad idea for an unwed 42-year-old to raise a child; Susan's is a lengthy accounting of the unrelenting and grindingly dull routine of raising children: "Herd crumbs into palm.
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In 294, Australia's prime minister, Julia Gillard, apologized to thousands of unwed mothers who had been forced to surrender their babies in the years after World War II. In the United States, it is one of the few issues that transcend the red/blue divide.
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There have been billion-dollar divorces, like that of Steve and Elaine Wynn who owned casinos together, and certainly, technology entrepreneurs have been in and out of divorce court — most notably Larry Ellison, a co-founder of Oracle who has been wed and unwed four times.
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Findings by the inquiry two years ago that remains ranging in age from 35 foetal weeks to 3 years were stored in underground chambers at a former church-run home for unwed mothers revived anguish over how women and children were once treated at state-backed Roman Catholic institutions.
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Palmer, 44, is one of thousands of Irish children who were born out of wedlock in an era when young unwed Catholic mothers were often forced by their families and the Catholic Church to give up their children in secrecy to avoid what their families saw as shame.
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This professor, he cleared the fucking of the graduate student with his pregnant wife, and for reasons I don't understand the wife allowed him to dabble in younger, unwed women while she gestated their child, while her blood and bones were sucked from her body into their fetus.
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Not because we had taken a vow of chastity but because we were terrified of the known and oft-threatened consequences of pregnancy: social ostracism and commitment to one of the church-run convents for unwed mothers and their offspring, which were known to be harsh and prisonlike.
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Among them are schoolteachers like Harriet Bishop and Fanny Fligelman Brin; Sarah Burger Stearns, who threw herself into the women's rights struggle when she was just 14; and Dr. Martha Ripley, who pioneered medical care for unwed mothers at a time when no Minneapolis hospital would admit them.
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But the law in effect when he was born allowed unwed fathers of children born abroad to transmit citizenship to them only if the fathers had lived in the United States before the child was born for a total of 10 years, five of them after age 14.
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The country has also experienced a string of scandals related to the Catholic Church's role in managing public services, including the discovery of a mass grave on the site of a former publicly financed home for unwed mothers run by a religious order, the Sisters of Bon Secours.
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Abuse survivors and their supporters plan to gather elsewhere in Dublin during the mass, while a silent vigil will also be held at the site of a former church-run home for unwed mothers where an unmarked grave with the remains of hundreds of babies was found in 2014.
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The law requires unwed fathers who are U.S. citizens to spend at least five years living in the United States - a 2012 amendment reduced it from 10 years - before they can confer citizenship to a child born abroad, out of wedlock and to a partner who is not a U.S. citizen.
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The law requires that unwed fathers who are American citizens spend at least five years living in the United States - a 2012 amendment reduced it from 10 years - before they can confer citizenship to a child born abroad, out of wedlock and to a partner who is not a U.S. citizen.
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But despite this, says Coughlan, institutions like the Australian Medical Association and Health Practitioner Regulation Agency have refused in correspondence with campaign groups to issue public statements or investigate related crimes— for example, alleged sexual abuse and the use of banned drugs like heroin on unwed mothers before and after birth.
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Word got around that if you were an unwed mother and your priest would not let you baptize your baby, or if you wanted to remarry but didn't have the information to get an annulment, you could go to Father Crowley at Holy Angels in a Pittsburgh neighborhood called Hays.
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The judge cited Ping's status as an unwed father at the time of his daughter's birth and his failure to pay child support to Catholic Guardian Services, the foster care agency that the city's child welfare arm, the Administration for Children's Services, had hired to take custody of the girl.
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To Esquire, she pitched a series on what she called New York's "outrageous ladies," including a then-obscure poet named Patti Smith; a shoot at one of San Francisco's "maternity homes," which functioned as asylums for unwed mothers and often led to forced adoptions; and a portfolio of famous photographers from decades past.
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A few years ago, an amateur historian shook Ireland to its core with a ghastly allegation: Hundreds of bodies of young children appeared to have been buried in an abandoned septic system by Catholic nuns who for decades had managed a home for unwed mothers and their offspring in the County Galway town of Tuam.
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Franklin's lawyer David J. Bennett filed papers in Michigan's Oakland County court that confirmed that she was unwed and had four sons (Clarence Franklin, Edward Franklin, Kecalf Franklin and Ted White Jr.) between the ages of 48 and 63 at the time of her death, according to the AP. Franklin's niece is acting as the executor.
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Inside this city is a house my student resides in with her family, not rich not poor, not a colored family, so she's not a colored daughter falling between society's cracks, unwed, broke, child to raise, stuck in a dead-end job, bills, bills, more bills and more trashy jobs to pay them until the end of time.
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We do this in little ways — when we refuse to let our children bully others, or when we offer a helping hand to the unemployed, a newly-arrived immigrant or an unwed pregnant mother — and in big ways, such as when our government ensures that regardless of race or religious creed, we can find work free of unlawful discrimination.
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"Society after World War II discovered a new passion to solve social problems and include the excluded, and all sorts of institutions (including orphanages, institutions for mentally retarded persons, homes for unwed mothers, youth detention centers, etc.) were phased out, with their residents often in effect kicked out from where they had lived for years," Cohen said.
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At least a decade before the twin figures of the harried working woman and the neurotic, unwed 19833-something became media preoccupations, Ms. Moore's portrayal — for which she won four of her seven Emmy Awards — expressed both the exuberance and the melancholy of the single career woman who could plot her own course without reference to cultural archetypes.
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Mr. Dial, the illiterate son of an unwed teenage mother, spent much of his childhood in rural poverty in western Alabama and, after moving to Bessemer, an industrial suburb of Birmingham, labored at a wide variety of occupations, all the while making works from castoff materials that he came to think of as art only when he was in his 22000s.
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" What Cohen's critics have in mind, specifically, is the way that the longstanding angst within the American Jewish community around assimilation, intermarriage and fertility tends to sustain a kind of soft traditionalist pressure even in liberal Jewish life — one that defines Jewish identity in exclusionist terms, they complain, while marginalizing "single women, queer people, unwed parents, and childless individuals or couples.
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After further sleuthing, she wrote an article in the local journal in 2012 that strongly suggested that the remains of hundreds of children, all born to unwed mothers and all baptized in the Catholic faith, had not been buried in consecrated ground, but in parts of a disused septic system dating to when the home was a 19th-century workhouse.
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Under the Immigration and Nationality act of 1952 as originally written, a child born outside of the United States to an unwed citizen father and a non-citizen mother has citizenship at birth only if the father was present in the United States for a period totaling at least 10 years, with at least five of those years occurring after the age of 14.
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Protect Thy Neighbor, an initiative of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, adds that divorcees could be denied marriage licenses, adoption agencies could refuse to place children with couples who lived together before they were married, taxpayer-funded shelters could turn away pregnant teenagers, fertility clinics could refuse to treat unwed couples and car rental agencies could decline to rent cars to same-sex couples on their honeymoons.
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