When I was little, I was watching a television show in which the teenage
daughter was pregnant. I remember thinking, "That's stupid, you can't be
pregnant if you aren't married!" My parents, of course, had told me that
being married was a prerequisite of having children, and I took that
literally.
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- When I was little I used to think that as soon as you were married the woman automatically got pregnant.Anon
- When I was younger I thought that to elope was to run off and get pregnant before you got married.Anon
- i used to believe nuns were married to jesus and priests were married to mary.— sunshine
- I thought that Ted Bundy was a character on "Married With Children."— Patrick
- I used to believe that having children could only happen after a wedding with the person you are married to.Anon
- My parents used to tell me watching television turns your eyes square.— Ruth