Quoting%20commentary for Kiddushin 136:1

ולדה כמותה מנלן דאמר קרא (שמות כא, ד) האשה וילדיה תהיה לאדוניה

how do we know that the issue takes her status? - Because Scripture saith, the wife and her children shall be her master's.How do we know [it of a freeborn] Gentile woman? - Scripture saith, neither shalt thou make marriages with them.How do we know that her issue bears her status? - R. Johanan said on the authority of R. Simeon b. Yohai, Because Scripture saith, For he will turn away thy son from following me:thy son byan Israelite woman is called thy son, but thy son by a heathen is not called thy son.Rabina said: This proves that thy daughter's son by a heathen is called thy son.Shall we say that Rabina holds that if a heathen or a [non-Jewish] slave cohabits with a Jewess the issue is mamzer?- [No.] Granted that he is not [regarded as] fit,he is not mamzer either, but merely stigmatised as unfit. Now, that [verse] refers to the seven nations I whence do we know it of other nations? - Scripture saith, 'For he will turn away [thy son],' which includes all who may turn [him] away. That is well according to R. Simeon, who interprets the reason of Scripture. But on the view of the Rabbis, what is the reason? - Scripture saith, and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, [etc.], whence it follows that before that kiddushin with her is invalid. We have thus found that kiddushin with her is not recognised. How do we know that her child is as herself? - Scripture saith, If there be to a man [two wives] . . . and they bare to him [children]: where we read 'if there be', we also read: 'and they bare to him'; but where we do not read: 'If there be', we do not read: 'and they bare to him'. If so, is not a [heathen] bondmaid likewise? - Yes, it is even thus. Then what is the purpose of 'the wife and her children shall be her master's'? - For what was taught:

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