From The Atlantic: "A few years ago, researchers published an eye-opening statistic: 57 percent of parents ages 26 to 31 were having kids outside of marriage."  yes, indeed, more children are being born to unmarried couples than to married couples. Not surprisingly, more couples each year choose to live together "unmarried" than marry and cohabit.  

NWCU is quite free to set conditions for employment within legal constraints addressing "protected" classes.  I'm guessing they've tightened up the contractual language regarding unmarried cohabitation or unmarried pregnancy since the Richardson fiasco.  That's fine....it's their University.  As is frequently the case, neither party admitted any "fault" and any financial settlement is undisclosed. 

 Let's hope NWCU, Ms Richardson and the rest of us can "move on"...Surely, we can find other topics for our rants.   Gary Crum