Position of an illegitimate child

Legitimacy is the status of a child born during the continuance of a valid marriage between the mother and any man, or within 280 days after its dissolution if the mother remains unmarried, unless it is shown that the parties to the marriage had no access to each other at any time when the child could have been conceived, his birth is treated as the conclusive proof of being legitimate. Whereas illegitimacy refers to the status of a child who is born to parents who are not legally married to each other or have no legal relation between each other. The Indian law is averse to declare a child as illegitimate. Illegitimacy has not always been a social problem only. It has been a personal problem, a family problem, a community problem, a religion problem and a legal problem. The motion of birth, either legitimate or illegitimate is present in most known human cultures. However, illegitimacy can mean something different, or not mean as much, to non-Europeans. This article show the position of an illegitimate child in Indian perspective.