vastaaisi

Vastaaisi is a Finnish word that denotes a person's child or children born out of wedlock, typically the offspring of the family's daughter or son who is unmarried or does not live with their parents. In the past, particularly in 18th and 19th centuries, being born to an unmarried mother could lead to a family's social stigma.

However, with the introduction of the Marriage Act in 1929, which allowed married couples to enter into wedlock if they already had a child, the social attitude towards one-parent families began to shift. The Act made it possible for the father to be included in the family's public records and thereby lift the social stigma associated with having a child born outside of wedlock.

Today, the concept of vastaaisi remains mostly as a historical term, and it is largely considered an outdated and somewhat outdated concept. However, the term still appears in some Finnish historical and social studies, providing insight into traditional social norms and the evolution of societal attitudes towards non-traditional family structures.

It is worth noting that the phenomenon of an unmarried childrearing family traces back to pre-marriage social innovations. The Aqustinian Catholic tradition first recorded vastaaisi in writing in the 1620s. As previously, it was common for children to be born out of wedlock in Finland due to the couple's ties with other women or men, forming of extensive family relations, given the Cold War Finlandera gained in January 2010 via smSwHAvers )