I thought that in order to become pregnant, a woman HAD to be married. It just wouldn't work otherwise, There was once supper table gossip in our house about a teenager being pregnant and I was adamant. "But she can't be pregnant! She's not married!"
This was 1967.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
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
- I used to believe that when you got married you immideatly got pregnant and so I was terrified to get married— leo
- 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 that women could only get pregnant once they were married and it just sort of happened Anon
- When I was younger I used to believe that women just magically got pregnant after getting married.Anon
- I used to beleive that if you got married getting pregnant was just a random event. I was so scared of boys!— me