McMaster v. McMaster

The parties before me are the father and-the mother of three children, respectively aged five, three and two years. These children were born out of wedlock.

I should not under any circumstances regard these children as illegitimate. The term “ illegitimate ” applied to babies seems not only incongruous but utterly unwarranted of what is proper, decent and right. These children may be regarded as the offspring of an illegitimate relationship, meretricious in character. But it is not the fault of the children that the parents have embarked upon a meretricious relationship or an illegitimate…