In Wiltshire in 1899, as recounted by Sylvia Marlow, one of Winifred Spencer's sisters was sent home from Marlborough to Pewsey, pregnant. Her Mother gave her a good whipping and took her to the Workhouse.
The justification was that if daughters misbehaved then the Father lost his cottage and his job.
She was 14 and had been raped by another member of the large household.
She was eventually found a place in Weston-super-Mare where she could keep the baby as long as no-one saw him.
When she married none of her legitimate children paid her first-born any attention.
A rather extreme case one would hope.
