My maternal grandmother and her family were very staunch Baptists! When I told my grandmother I was pregnant with my first child, she said " but you don't look as if you have anything wrong with you". I replied " but there isn't anything wrong with with me, I'm pregnant"!
"No dear, you are having a baby, only unmarried bad girls get pregnant"
Last year, while doing some more research on her own parents, I found a record that her parents had a child that I didn't previously know about. This child, a daughter, was the first of 8, and was born just 2 weeks after they married! Sadly, the daughter died aged 6 weeks. I don't suppose my grandmother must even had known about this child, or wouldn't have considered her mother an "unmarried bad girl"! From the way she spoke of them, her parents were saints!! 😄
(A 2nd cousin of mine, told me that when he was a young boy, he could remember my great grandfather ( his grandfather - the father mentioned above) often being found in the early morning curled up asleep in the vegetable garden holding an empty Whisky bottle!)! Bad boy stuff and obviously no saint! Why do the women always get the "bad girl" blame!
