[SeekAndFind]

You, gop, are the one who refers to the child as "a mistake." That is cold.

Please read my posts in this thread and tell me where I called the child a "mistake". Give evidence before accusing. Remember the 9th commandment.

[Philo-Junius]

Jane Austen is on the side of legitimacy; it was cleveland GOP to whom she was speaking.

The question to those who object to “bastard” is:

Do you object to “bastard” because it savours too much of taunting the child about something undesirable or—gasp—immoral about its conception over which the child of course had no control, or do you merely object to the stigmatisation of illegitimacy when it occurs in a family we want to idealise?

[Jane Austen]

I was not referring to you but to another poster’s comment to you. :)