There was informal marriage with soldiers, who until A.D.197 were not legally entitled to wed, and whole new communities grew up near the forts.

在公元197年之前，士兵并未被法律授予结婚的权利，因此与士兵结婚没有正式的婚礼，而且所有的新社区都是在军事要塞附近发展起来的。

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Informal marriage and cohabitation were so common in early 19th -century America that one judge estimated that one-thirds of all children were born to couples who were not legally married.

19世纪初，非正式婚姻和同居在美国盛行，一名法官估计，当时大约三分之一的儿童父母都是没有合法结婚的。

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