I was very fortunate enough to have the angels I have for biological parents..
but there is no such thing as bastard children, only bastard societies..which treat children as pieces of shit... just look at all the children that go missing every year... that shit is an epidemic but does society ring the alarm.. nope....thats the way they planned it!
bastard society led by bastard people..
children are innocent!!
I seriously NEVER understood the concept of ostracizing the child, I could understand the Mom or the Dad but the child has absolutely NO choice in this matter yet societies ALL OVER THE WORLD treat(ed) them like pure shit!
There was a western called "The Big Valley" that used to come on when I was a kid (comes on MeTV now
) with a young Lee Majors playing Heath Barkley, who was a bastard child who went to his now dead rich Father's family to claim his "birth rite", while the family accepted him throughout the show's run he ALWAYS ran into trouble and got into fights because men would clown and ridicule him for being a "bastard", a few times the Dads or brothers of women he liked would do their best to break them up because, even though the rich family accepted him and he had full access to their money, they didn't want their families degrading themselves getting involved with "a mutt!" as they put it!

This is one hella of a question but it's as real as anything else and it's something that needs to be talked about more because as sad as it is,it happens more than you would think.