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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Wedlock is a padlock.
Wedlock is a narrow business.
A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.
Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts.
I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.
Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.
For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.
Wedlock's like wine - not properly judged of till the second glass.
The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
We must demand that blacks work, stop making babies out of wedlock, and raise their children.
Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.
Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.
Our families have fallen to pieces. 75 percent of all black children are born out of wedlock, without a father.
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
I am very much aware that I am considered a 'strong woman.' And I am also aware that that is only because I had a child outside wedlock.
I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.
In our society, it's an unwritten law that you can't have a child out of wedlock. I am not in agreement with that, but I am expected to follow it as I am a part of this society.
The condition of women in our country is so bad that compared to them I have been through nothing. I have just had a child out of wedlock, but I get to be the face of the independent modern woman. I don't think it is fair.
It began to really eat away with me that in the '60s the federal government, desiring to help poor moms who were dealing with deadbeat dads, decided, 'We'll help: we'll give a check for every child you can have out of wedlock.'
I got married only because I was pregnant. Simple as that. I am a very traditional girl and was horrified at the thought of having a child out of wedlock. I didn't want a child of mine to be different or have fingers pointed at.
Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
I literally grew up reading the papers about my existence... that I was a love child. To a kid, it doesn't make any difference. I always thought that if somebody can have an extramarital affair, someone can have a child out of wedlock.
Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.
I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.
Most children of the underclass are born out of wedlock; relationships are fleeting and unstable (which ensures that what is born into the underclass stays in the underclass). This is a world in which there are almost no worthwhile male role models, which is a disaster when boys turn to youths.
Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.
If the Left really wants to preserve family structure and advance cultural values such as work, why do they oppose reforms to a welfare system that pays teenage girls to have babies out of wedlock and disparage conservative proposals that require able-bodied Americans to work for their welfare benefits like food stamps?
