My mind has been whirling about this, I couldn't fall asleep until nearly 3AM and awoke at about 6.
Can't say that I am "proud of this" but I must say that all evidence indicates that I have plenty of reason to be proud of my daughter and grandkids.
In the FreeRepublic "society" context consider these cunundroms... This occurred in 1966-67 and there were no birth control pills yet as I recall. There was no legal abortion yet.
This was not the result of some sleazy 1 night stand, we were dating exclusively for some time and if the mom had told me she was pregnant I almost certainly would have married her.
But we were 19 and I was in the USAF and scheduled for being shipped overseas to Vietnam. The mom didn't know if she would ever see me again and in fact hasn't...I haven't spoken with her so I don't know exactly what drove her decision process, but certainly things would have developed differently if these events had taken place in the current society.
On the other side of that coin, if I had married the mom one thing is almost certain...there are three young people alive today who wouldn't be.
A topic in a 1962 college course of mine asked us, "What will the effects of The Pill be on society?"
My theory was that labor unions would go bust.
I had no idea that within the thirty years that followed, that it meant "Press 2 for English".