[Dharma]

I have a friend who lives in Anguilla. Even though the excerpt below would make you believe traditional marriage has taken over the culture, she says there are still families with "inners" and "outers". Inners are the children fathered by the husband and outers are ones from someone other than the husband. She says the children are loved all the same and they are seen as gifts from God. It doesn't matter where they came from.

Culture of Anguilla - History and ethnic relations, Urbanism, architecture, and the use of space
MARRIAGE, FAMILY, AND KINSHIP

Marriage. The extended family is central to Anguillan and West Indian societies in general. Despite the strong influences of the Methodist and Anglican Churches, historically marriage was not considered obligatory for the creation of a family or a domestic living arrangement. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, apart from the small upper class of English landowners, social conditions and slavery made the creation of long-lasting unions very difficult. Men and women frequently lived together in common law marriages for varying lengths of time. It was not infrequent for women and men to have children with more than one partner. Marriage in the Western sense was more likely to occur among the upper and middle classes. Today marriage is considered a cornerstone of family and social life, and weddings are community events.