Are kids that are born out of wedlock still considered bast-ards?

yes....

It doesn't really matter anymore to people. I don't really know why, but you can just observe other people and how having kids without being married is so common now, no one really cares. It's such an insulting reference as well, but I think those small few who are still traditionalists will think in those terms from time to time...I don't know...

No, just hyper religious people still love to add stereotypes like that.

It's due to pre marital sex being more acceptable.

They call them bast-ard children.

But I think Its just because it complicates things.

I dont think its used as the offensive word. (swear word)

Its just a term

There are two in my family and I will not leave them anything nor set up any trust funds until the parents wed and become legal....as far as I'm concerned they are not family....

guess is still open as a word..but isnt as important as was way -way before...... and after in vitro and the growing mass populations and expansions of frontiers.......

I consider them children, not bastards or "illegitimate."

They had no say in how they came to be born.

yeah. its not their fault i mean really. my bro is a "bastard*" and he uses that excuse to say "you guys just think im a stupid bastard and a mistake" because he likes swearing