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Out of Wedlock Childbearing in an Ante-Bellum Southern County

Susan Newcomer

Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of NICHHD, Bethesda, Maryland

Bastardy bonds and 1850 census data from Wake County, North Carolina are used to examine the extent of out-of-wedlock childbearing in that county. Women who bore children out of wedlock lived in female headed households, and the fathers were more likely to be well-off heads of households. The same women recurred in the bonds, as did some of the same men. Rates of white out-of-wedlock births were found not to differ greatly from those of 1970.

Journal of Family History, Vol. 15, No. 1, 357-368 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/036319909001500120
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