no child is a bastard.......its hateful speech towards an innocent child.....we can call Mr. Wimpy all the names we want, but lets leave the children out of it.....
Born in or out of wedlock???
There’s the answer.
Sorry, but the child is a bastard if they are not married. It’s not a slap at the child, but at the two “adults” that chose to have sex/child out of wedlock.
Pronunciation: (bas'turd), n. A person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child.
Sorry if that word offends you, but it's the correct term here.
Actually the term “bastard” has been used in health department records and social science reasearch. That was a while back and changes might have been made.
Words have MEANINGS. The factual and literal meaning of the word “bastard” is “child of unmarried parents.” If this child is indeed John Edwards’, she is in fact a bastard.
AMEN!
“Bastard” is the correct term for a child born out of wedlock. Also “illegitimate” would work.
(One reason I never got pregnant before I got married ... I didn’t want my child to be stigmatized for my bad behavior. No responsible parent would, IMHO.)
[A bastard is an illegitimate child, and the word is also used as a derogatory term for an unpleasant person.]
Bastard is a perfectly descriptive word as used here. And from A Lee Marvin movie when called a bastard, he responded, “in my case and accident of birth, but YOU, sir, are a salf made man!”
So the use fits Edwards as well.
Stop hiding behind children. You are promoting the absence of shame attached to unwed motherhood. Acceptance of childbearing outside marriage represents not just a huge shift in attitudes but, potentially, a restructuring of the future human family.
By elevating single motherhood from an unfortunate consequence of poor planning to a sophisticated act of self-fulfilment, we have helped to fashion a world in which fathers are not just scarce but in which men are also superfluous