I’ve been doing research on my entire family back to my grandmother’s parents, etc. She was born a couple of months after they married. My dad was born out of wedlock. My sister had a couple of children out of wedlock and THEY have had chilren out of wedlock, and now my great niece is pregnant, no husband. This is a generational ‘curse’ as we say in christianspeak. Even in my mom’s family (all in Norway) there were many children born out of wedlock or ‘just in time.’ I’d like to see my generations do things differently and believe me, I talk to my granddaughters about it all the time. I pray it works.
My uncle always had a saying, “The first child can come at any time but the second one takes nine months.” Back in the old days, it was common b/c people actually still got married. Now they’ll have the kid and never get married or get married when the kid is age six or something.
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Many have the same family history, but few will admit it...