Times Have Changed!

Lucille Ball was born in 1911. In 1951 she was pregnant. The word pregnant was not allowed on TV. Expecting was the prerferred
terminology. Kind of prudish!

Dear Alice,
I remember that back in those early days TV women did not have sex In fact, it was a mystery how the little one got into the oven in the first place. Children were not supposed to know or even think about the possibility. If!!!! God forbid!!! a girl who was not supposed to know where children came from, was not properly informed about her periodic bodily function, suddenly found that she had one growing (God knows how it could happen), she was shipped off (if the family had any money or pride) to an Unwed Mother's Home to accept her disgrace and exclusion from Christian society forever more. AHHHHHH! To add to that, she had to give her child up to strangers. HAD to, mind you. Still, she could never enter the town of her disgrace again.

So, we must have progressed a small tad as humanity.

Love,
Betty

Betty,
My grandmother that I never met, died as a result of an unwed pregnacy. That's part of the story I'm writing. Family disgrace was a big thing. We read about the Turks and Arabs that engage in family honor killings. The manner (art) of killing differs, however a similar mentality existed in our own country. Good thing we progressed. With some cultures, it will take more time.

It is a very good thing we have progressed.
Thank God for unwed mothers.

Hear, hear to all of your comments!

The honor killings that Abe alludes to are arguably less cruel than the degradation of spirit, the lifetime of shame, and the benign condescension from otherwise good people towards unwed mothers and, even more cruelly, their children. I have seen it directed at people I loved and love in my own lifetime by people completely oblivious to the misogeny underlying their righteous judgment.