Late last year came a significant but little-noticed announcement: probably for the first time, half of all Hispanic children in America were born out of wedlock.

去年年底，更有一份事关重大却未引起注意的公告首次显示，在美国出生的西班牙婴儿中，有一半是私生子。

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In contrast, half of marriages in some Western countries end in divorce, and half of all children are born outside wedlock.

相比之下，在一些西方国家，大约半数的婚姻以离婚告终，而且有一半的孩子是非婚生的。

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She was born out of wedlock in the village of Los Toldos in rural Argentina in 1919, the fourth of five children.

她1919年生于阿根廷一个偏远山区，是家中的第四个孩子。

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Back in 1965, 25% of black children were born out of wedlock, nearly one-third fewer.

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Most entrants have addresses supplied, mottoes are (sometimes oddly) translated and again, for the first time children born out of wedlock (more than 30% of all births in Britain, these days, though still quite a bit less common among the upper class) are sometimes acknowledged.

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Jennifer McKay Gold, 52, the mother of two children (now teens) born out of wedlock with Bren, filed suit in 2003, accusing him of breaking pillow-talk promises of more money.

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