The golden age of Rome?

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Now what makes you think the state would provide any welfare for people breaking the law? Think, man.

Even legal marriages did not receive any kind of welfare. Welfare is an idea that is completely un-Roman. The only ones who did receive any kind of welfare were roman children, which was not welfare but apparently an effort of imperial propaganda and of course trying to bolster the birth rate.

No, the only way they would get anything was if the soldier bequethed something to them in his will.

True, should have considered about the legality of those children in the first place. Hard to think properly when you are having a high fever. I should not have view the ancient Romans with such a modern mindset.