I used bastard exactly how it is defined by every single English dictionary. Facts are facts.     This is what I said:  Secondly, why would you be so stubborn to disallow your children to be raised by married parents (who still call themselves married:rolleyes and therefore, yes, be bastard children.   Yup, still used by definition. I didn't use it derogitorily (if that's a word) saying your kids are little bastards. If the parents aren't married, then the children are THERERFORE bastards.     Here you go. 10 different dictionary definitions prooving I know how to use the English language:      bas·tard ( P ) Pronunciation Key (bstrd)  n.    1. A child born out of wedlock.    adj.    1. Born of unwed parents; illegitimate.    [Middle English, from Old French, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Old Frisian bst, marriage.]bastard·ly adj.    [Download or Buy Now]  Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition  Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.  Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.    Main Entry: bas·tard  Pronunciation: 'bas-t&rd  Function: noun  : an illegitimate child  NOTE: The word bastard is no longer used in legal contexts. bas·tardy /'bas-t&r-dE/ noun    Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.    bastard    \Bastard\, n. [OF. bastard, bastart, F. b?tard, prob. fr. OF. bast, F. b?t, a packsaddle used as a bed by the muleteers (fr. LL. bastum) + -ard. OF. fils de bast son of the packsaddle; as the muleteers were accustomed to use their saddles for beds in the inns. See Cervantes, ``Don Quixote,'' chap. 16; and cf.G. bankert, fr. bank bench.]     1. A ``natural'' child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.      [Free Trial - Merriam-Webster Unabridged.]  Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.    bastard    \Bastard\, a. 1. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.    [Free Trial - Merriam-Webster Unabridged.]  Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.    bastard    \Bastard\, v. t. To bastardize. [Obs.] --Bacon.    [Free Trial - Merriam-Webster Unabridged.]  Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.    bastard    adj 1: born out of wedlock; the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring- E.A.Freeman [syn: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious] 2: the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn: by-blow, love child, illegitimate child, illegitimate, whoreson]     Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University    bastard    In Deut. 23:2, it occurs in the ordinary sense of illegitimate  offspring.        11