So you got knocked up, Sweetie. It happens.
But if you think it’s Kavanaugh’s fault, you need to discuss the birds and the bees with your school-aged kids.
“So you got knocked up, Sweetie. It happens.
But if you think it’s Kavanaugh’s fault, you need to discuss the birds and the bees with your school-aged kids.”
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From the story:
” The 73-year-old Johnston recounted her personal experience with an unexpected pregnancy 56 years ago, before abortions were legal.
“It was also before the pill was invented. It was before birth control was legal and women had not much to say about anything,” Johnston, a Maine resident, told ABC News in a telephone interview while she was in Washington, D.C., this week.
She said she and her long-term boyfriend were 18 years old and just starting college. They used a condom, but it failed.
“My mother threw me out. She was so ashamed,” Johnston said. “I thought I ruined everyone’s lives. I thought, ‘I’m just going to kill myself.’”
How many of you FReepers 73+ ?? You don’t have to tell me but you will understand what I’m about to say.
Her mom threw her out not because she was pregnant although that was bad because that says “the baby is the problem” (had she been a boy who got a girl pregnant, no she would have not been tossed out) her parents threw her out because she had sex out of wedlock and she was a WHORE! Having a daughter who was a whore was shameful. Other parents might have sent her away to a convent or Aunt Helen’s to live for a while where she would have given birth in secret and given the child up for adoption. Maybe some parents would have encouraged the girl to marry the boy. It depends on the girl’s parents.
Now had her parents had a son who got a girl pregnant they would have been trying to figuring out what to do. Tell their son to marry her? Tell the girl to give the baby up? Accuse the girl of trying to trap their son into marrying him because she got pregnant. Again it depends on the parents at that time and place.
Point is people have forgotten that being pregnant out of wedlock used to be very shameful, and unless in the case of rape it should be.
I’m not that old but I remember!!