UNWED MOTHER - ABC 1965

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  @reneetone8965 · 7 years ago

  No consequences of "loving out of wedlock" for men, of course.

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• KI

  @kimturner9309 · 8 years ago

  I swear I don’t know how any of us survived this experience.

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• TH

  @TheNotBees · 7 years ago

  So much courage and strength under truly horrific societal repression.

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• DA

  @DarkWokeGF · 5 years ago

  I swear everyone had the exact same voice back then.

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• GE

  @GetTheGrandFunkOut · 6 years ago (edited)

  My God! I never knew this aired on the ABC-TV News in 1965! I am convinced that we children (girls) growing up in the 1960's should have watched every TV news special that came on at 10 p.m. when we were either doing homework or preparing for bed! We asked our parents these questions and they told us girls NOTHING, leaving so many of us ultimately to get knocked up and abandoned!

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• ME

  @meetmarkarit732 · 9 years ago

  Dear Lord... these people were so abnormal back in the day.

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• MO

  @momoftwins8440 · 7 years ago

  Glad some communities & districts came to their senses and began to teach their children about sex education. This was a horrible era for the female. Everything is always the burden on the female!!!

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• VI

  @videoettaceo8900 · 5 years ago

  I was scooped from MY mother and I am so angry 😡 at what they did to us.

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• DE

  @deloressullivan9830 · 5 years ago

  OMG. This is so the way it was and so horribly wrong, so damaging to the child to lose their family of origin and the shaming and labeling of young women. Horrific

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• MI

  @michellewoods1779 · 2 years ago

  I was an unwed mother in the early 90's at barely 16, I was one of the fortunate ones that once the shock of it wore off, my family rallied around me and supported my decision to keep him!  He is now 31 years old and although it was a challenge in the early years, I wouldn't change it for anything!!!  I am so glad that the stigma of unwed mothers and the support system available has changed over the years!

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• BO

  @bonitamartin4954 · 3 years ago

  When I was in junior high school (1973-1976) I noticed that only "good girls" got pregnant. None of them had contraceptives because none of them intended to go all the way. At 16, I had no intention either, but I began to carry contraceptives in my purse. I thought, you don't insure your car because you PLAN to have a wreck! Funny thing is, I was a virgin when I married. I didn't need the insurance, but I still consider it money well spent.

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• RO

  @robertcuminale1212 · 4 years ago

  I was born in Lennox Hill Hospital in May 1951. My mother was 16 and not married. I sometimes wish she had given me up for adoption. My life could have been so much better than it was. She married my father when they'd reached the legal age  for marriage and had 7 more kids. My father's mental problems left us very poor in all categories. We were and still are a very dysfunctional family. I survived it all but my siblings did not and now their children are paying the price with broken families. I'm married 50 years and had a peaceful home the whole time. I did it by leaving them to their craziness to concentrate on my own family.

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