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From: "Loree F. Mueller" <>
Subject: Re: Marrying off the Pregnant Lass
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 22:28:32 -0400


Never thought about it in that aspect before and it does raise some
interesting questions. I grew up with the "old" morality and have a
difficult time understanding this "do my own thing, to heck with anybody
else or who it hurts" thought process. You are so right. We think we have
problems now finding our forefathers, future generations may never know the
joy of finding a lost relation.

Loree

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> Subject: Re: Marrying off the Pregnant Lass
> Date: Thursday, October 01, 1998 8:21 PM
>
> My Opinion - Far better to have the lad "forced" to marry the girl he
> impregnated than to have the situation all too common today - the single
> mother trying to raise a child, with no help whatsoever from the father.
I'm
> not sure the old "shotgun" weddings were all that wrong. At least the
father
> had to accept the consequences of his action, and in the best case he may
even
> learn to truly love his wife. I would rather live with the "old" morals
than
> with the modern ones wherein no one is expected or required to take
> responsibility for their actions. I realize that this is not "genealogy"
per
> se, but this situation is related. Just think about genealogists several
> generations hence trying to find the mother and father for a child.
> cheers, Les Mellott
>
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