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[ UK /ʌnwˈɛd/ ]
[ US /ənˈwɛd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of someone who has not been married
    unwed mother

How To Use unwed In A Sentence

  • It seems to me that the State goes out of its way to accommodate unfortunate unwed mothers while holding hard-working spouses with children to child care costs as high as their mortgage payments.
  • A brief perusal of the welfare debates in the last decade among the conservatives, the liberals and the welfare recipients themselves - an unwed mother on welfare, in this instance - provides useful insights.
  • A sometime documentary filmmaker, she traveled to the once-thriving industrial town of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in order to chronicle the lives of a generation of teenage unwed mothers.
  • Likewise, back at the ranch, the Godless blue states rank, on average, ahead of the Bible-thumping red states on such hot-button morality indicators as divorce, unwed mothers and domestic violence.
  • Take for example, Cara from the Curvature's thread on the costs of unwed parenting, in which women point out why Bush's Marriage Saver program is a bad idea: doesn't stop men from abandoning women when they have children (as they've done historically), doesn't help single mothers, doesn't help women in abusive marriages. Sweet Valley? Implicit Racism & Other thoughts
  • That's right folks, I was the vilest creature that dared to haunt the social landscape: the unwed teenage welfare mom.
  • The increase in out-of-wedlock birthrates is more dramatic: In 2005, 59 percent of all first-born French children were born to unwed parents, most by choice, not chance. Sound Politics: Turning A Blind Eye To Fatherless Black Babies
  • Even unwed single mothers have said that they want more children than they have, even in an unwed state.
  • The film is soon overtaken by a new mood towards the churchy authorities, and the uptight religious types are shown to be just as nice as unwed moms.
  • He had been born in the charity ward of a Providence Catholic hospital called St. Joseph's: mother unwed, father unknown. Blaze
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