I agree. People now act like it “has” to happen, but why didn’t it happen as often in the past when it was socially proscribed to be an unwed mother, and the word bastard wasn’t what you called your ex-husband? It’s not that people didn’t think young people didn’t get the same urges they get now, they absolutely DID think that they did, and took steps to keep their urges from overcoming their emotional maturity and capability of raising a family.
Yes, but I think more than the issue of stigma even is simply chaperoning away the opportunity. Some urges are just too strong to expect a couple of mid-teenagers to be able to counteract themselves. Give them too much opportunity and they will give in—even if they don’t mean to.
Parents are either so eager to be ‘cool’ and liked by their kids or too lazy to be bothered, I think—which is a real disservice to their children.