Well, but my point is the Church is the actual bulwark against that. The Christian Church asserts that all life has inherent value, even bastards. But generally, bastards & whores/home-wreckers seem to be seen as a plague on society by older societies.

I was kind of referring to non-western societies (which is not exactly appropriate given the context, so my bad on that, I didn't really elaborate any of that well). I know it was kind of a shock for soldiers going to Afghanistan to realize that if the father of a family died, the woman and her children were basically considered socially worthless, sometimes cast out, and forced to live in the mountains (American soldiers are western). Then you have the history of Indians (of the Indus Sub-Continent) burning their widows alive with their dead husbands. Again, the western Protestant British soldiers decreed they'd execute anyone caught doing that.