[afraidfortherepublic]

In the late 50’s and early 60’s it was a very unfashionable to be an unwed mother. It was especially unfashionable to be unwed and pregnant with a bi-racial child.

And you know this, how?

I was a young woman in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and I can assure you that none of the above was fashionable. NOT AT ALL!

If it were fashionable why would ypur next point be the case:

As such, many young women were sent to “birthing homes” so as to not be an embarassment to their families

I fear that you are condensing later practices and imagining them to be the case in earlier years. "Birthing homes" existed precisely because unwed pregnancy of any color was highly UNFASHIONABLE!

[After Hours]

Never said it was “fashionable”
Read “unfashionable” in my post.