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For example, pre-modern Europe believed that a woman who had sex before marriage might carry the imprint of her lover within her, so that her child born in wedlock would resemble the earlier lover, rather than the husband.

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And of course, that's a much better thing to get people for than the things we used to get people for, like having children out of wedlock.

The film also contains the idiotic subplot of Norris and his girlfriend having a child out of wedlock; it's so 1980's.

I saw this movie in its own time period, when having a baby out of wedlock not only ruined your life, but stamped your child as a bastard.

Plot about a female bartender having a baby out of wedlock, and years later giving the young girl over to the child's wealthy father so she'll have a shot at a better life, can't escape tatty, old-fashioned trappings and sentiment.

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