Another significant exception is the stigmatisation of illegitimate children.
This stems from a period when the family, not the individual, was seen
as the primary social unit; it is difficult to see any basis for the moral rejection of illegitimacy from the viewpoint of individualism, in the same way as it is now difficult for many to accept the curse put upon families in the Bible even unto the third generation. In general, though, morality assumes individual autonomy.