The issue is, who was he? The gardener? The next door neighbor? The milk man?
I don’t know, you don’t know and the guy who married your ( and mine) G-G-G grandmother didnt know.
My point is, that women in the pre-birth control, pre-welfare mom and pre-liberation days were held to a much stricter standard than men, and were the ones punished for any sexual indiscretions, such as turning up pregnant unmarried, or having a child that did not resemble the father. The simple fear of social ostracism and a life of impoverishment, banished from polite society or the religious community, served to keep women in line. The incidence of infidelity by women was and is historically much lower than that by men until very, very recently.