No illegitimate kids, just Presidents....

Seriously, my father was born just six months after my grandparents married -- a healthy, bouncing baby born three months early but who looked like a full-term one. Certainly my grandparents would never, ever...why, Queen Victoria was barely cold in her grave back in 1917!

When my wife called to tell my mother we'd decided to get married, my mother's response was to yell to my sister, "Hey, Martha! Pat's pregnant!"

Mom also used to say "The first can come anytime, the rest take nine months." Just her way of saying that children should be loved whenever they come along -- and while she prefered that mom&dad be married, she never held it against the children. (She also used to say that a child can only be completely sure of who their mother is.)

Illegitimacy was a legal construct, not a human (or humane) one.