On the other hand, both my Grandmas were pregnant when they were married.
It’s probably happened throughout history. I think what’s different now is often the parents don’t bother to marry, or if they do they don’t always concern themselves with doing it before the child is born or get in a hurry to do it. In addition, living together without marriage is almost the norm now, even for *good* families. And this has happened in a very short period of time. And there is not embarrassment regarding the marital status of the parents.
On the other hand, congrats to the Palin family.
Things weren’t pristine in the ‘old’ days. Girls got preggo and were herded off to pregnant unwed mother’s homes. Adoption was a booming business. Our head cheerleader was preggo, we all knew it. She had an ‘illness’ and had to be ‘quarantined’ for 5 months. We all knew what was going on. LOL!