He married a former beauty queen in 1968 and had four legitimate children, three of whom are still living and were mentioned in his will.
Is it legitimate to use your children as a justification?
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He said the Blair's had a legitimate desire to see their children had a normal upbringing despite "the abnormal circumstances of being children of a serving prime minister".
While stressing there are legitimate cases that call for medicating children, Roberts, who practices in Murrietta, California, warned against throwing pills at a problem.
"It's a fun and educational thing to do for people who are married with children and need a legitimate reason to leave home, " she says.
But there is one area in which the state is generally felt, even by most libertarians, to have a legitimate interest, and that is the protection of children.
The prince has acknowledged having fathered two children out of wedlock, but only his legitimate offspring would be able to succeed him.
The National Children's Bureau, a charity, argues that the curfew he envisages will be imposed mainly in poor areas where children have no place to go for safe, legitimate, activities.
Traditional marriage laws may support legitimate goals like promoting intact, reasonably stable wedlock between mothers and fathers for children, or simply stem from a desire to not experiment with a core unit of civil society.
"There are legitimate reasons for this, so the child fits in with the already existing children in the family or so the child looks more like the social father, " said Mark Rothstein, director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Kentucky.
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