Largely as a result of a humane attitude, the author makes clear, statistically Japan has a very low illegitimacy rate.

Men often feel no moral obligation to take care of children because of a high illegitimacy rate.

Last year the illegitimacy rate in America dropped for the first time in 20 years.

In 1940, the illegitimacy rate for Black children was 19%.

The illegitimacy rate is going up every year.

When we started the current welfare program, the illegitimacy rate was roughly one-quarter of what it is today.

So officials saw an opportunity to make a dent in the illegitimacy rate with better education and family planning.

Among its incidental attractions, homicide and divorce rates dropped and the illegitimacy rate was low.

This poverty was supposedly reflected in the highest illegitimacy rate in the country.

But after the war, two major social upheavals coincided: the rise in illegitimacy rates and the increasing authority of psychoanalysis.