Girls who got pregnant in those days were severely punished.
What BS.
I don’t know how old you are.
But we who were in HS and collage in the 70’s. Can tell you a different story.
The 80’s there was even less problems for unwed mothers.
Several of my HS and collage classmates got pregnant.
They Ethier got married and went onto raise their children by themselves.
You seem to have had a different experience. This woman lived in a small North Dakota town in 1980. In my city in 1980 girls would go away “to visit their aunt” if they got pregnant. If or when they returned the guys would not date them (in public) and certainly not marry them. Sometimes the family wouldn’t want them to return.