Reply #19: Here's the deal as I see it [View All]

in the 50's and 60's when a girl got pregnant they managed to marry them up before the timer popped. so those kids were born to married women, even though they weren't married when she got pregnant. The majority of those marriages did not survive and many of those women ended up single mothers anyway - or a man would tough it out, have his affairs, and then bolt when the youngest turned 18.

Now, no one cares about the piece of paper. If she gets "knocked up" and isn't married then who really cares. Very few kids I know these days are being raised in a home with both the birth mother and birth father - and it doesn't mean the father is AWOL.