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jmcquown[_2_]

On 5/27/2018 12:43 PM, wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2018 11:10:16 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Gotta love Judge Judy. She tells litigants [men and women equally] all
>> the time to stop making babies with all these different people. That
>> ship, sadly, has sailed.
>>
>> Jill
>
> Not all that long ago there was no DNA testing. A lot of men paid
> child support for another's child. A lot of men unknowingly raised
> another's child. Used to be when a school girl became pregnant she
> was sent away to a home for unwed mothers. Nowadays my wife tells me
> that at any given time there are a dozen high school girls in school
> wearing maternity clothes. Can't really compare life today to how it
> was a few short years ago, and more major changes are coming.
>
>
As recently as the 1970's getting pregnant while still in high school
was shameful. At least two girls I was acquainted with "went to live
with their aunt" (uh huh). I only knew one girl who got pregnant who
stayed in school. She was noticeably pregnant at graduation. The
low-life dropout she was madly in love with didn't stick by her but
another of our classmates did. I ran into them a few years later;
they'd gotten married and he was willingly raising the other guy's child.

Jill