bastard/illegitimate child

[tali122]

a ******* /illegitimate child is a result of a child born of unmarried parents but what of these scenarios below would the child still be called a ******* -are there different types of illegitmacy in the scenarios below? 1)if a married woman has affair with a single male
2)common law husband and wife
3)if a married man and woman have an extra marital affair
4)if a married man has an affair with a single woman

[dot.hawkes]

i think it is a term that means a child born of an unmarried woman, regardless of any longerm relationship, but it is not used in a legal context now the way it was used during the Poor Law years when afiliation orders and ******** orders were used, and they were only used to make sure the mother and child were not a burden on the Parish rates.

[Ethel]

1) legitimate

2) illegitimate

3) legitimate

4) illegitmate

The fact that a woman is married gives the child a legal assumption of legitimacy regardless of who the father is.

[tali122]

thanks ethel , but dont common law particuraly in modern times have more rights?

[Octavius]

A bar steward in the law of England and Wales was a person whose parents, at the time of his birth, were not married to each other. A person conceived to a couple not married to each other but who subsequently marry before the birth would not be treated as a bar steward.

Unlike many other systems of law, there was no possibility of post hoc legitimisation of a bar steward. If the parents married after the birth, the child would remain a bar steward.

In the United Kingdom the notion of bar stewardy was effectively abolished by The Children Act 1989, which took force in 1991. It introduced the concept of parental responsibility, which ensures that a child may have a legal father even if the parents were not married. It was, however, not until December 2003, with the implementation of parts of The Adoption and Children Act 2002, that parental responsibility was automatically granted to fathers of out-of-wedlock children, and even then only if the father's name appears on the birth certificate.

[felinechums]

What does it matter? A child is a child - the terms ******* and illegitimate are only names that society confers upon children born into certain circumstances - this does not tell us anything about the newborn child, or the adult he/she will grow into. They are merely terms used by (perceived) superior social beings to keep (perceived) inferior social beings in their place.
Grrrr!!

[Octavius]

It's a legitimate question.

[xskababyx]

I thought the term '******* child' could be appliable to all of the above. It's a child who is born out of wedlock, and that includes if it is born as a result of an extra marital affair.

A child is only legitimate if it is made by two people who are married to eachother.