Abstract
The new method for counting illegitimate births does not depend on the addition to the birth certificate of any question about legitimacy (see the copy of California birth certificate in the Appendix). Since about 1916, no such question has appeared on the California certificate, and strong opposition has been voiced against adding the question. Although the need for statistical information about illegitimacy has been recognized, the feeling has been that this need was subordinate to the need to protect the unwed mother and her child from stigma; and that further stigma would result from inclusion of an explicit question, particularly since birth records in California are available to the public. Efforts to make the medical and health section of the birth certificate confidential have not been successful. How, then, is it now possible to count illegitimate births? The
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