"Illegitimacy" resurrected in Ireland circa 2012

"This change in the Social Welfare Bill is regressive in the extreme bringing the term “illegitimate” back into the vocabulary of society and bringing with it the stigma which has always attached to the term." -Claire-Michelle Smyth B.A, LL.B, LL.M, PhD Candidate, Lecturer in Griffith College Dublin

Read the full text:  RENEWED DISCRIMINATION AGAINST NON-MARITAL CHILDREN?

See also: “Change The Law -Give Him An Equal Chance” 1980 Young Fine Gael campaign to give rights to ‘illegitimate’ children - Dr Ciara Meehan, Historian, Author, Researcher