marriages like this one were the cornerstone of respectability. to have a baby outside of wedlock would be breaking one of the most potent taboos. till death us do part. but what if you did become pregnant before you married? i was really, really scared, and ijust blotted i was working at the holiday camp in bognor, i was going out with one of the redcoats, we became intermittent i got pregnant. became intermittent i got pregnant- became intermittent i got reunant. ., .. ,, .,, pregnant. veronica smith was unmarried- my mother didn t tell my father because she said it would kill him. so he never knew? no. ever? never. it was regarded as so shameful that veronica was secretly sent to a mother and baby home in another part of london. she and her mother had to create a story to explain her disappearance to her father. i used to meet my mother at wimbledon station, and she would come with paper and an envelope, and we d concoct this letter that i was working away from home in
marriages like this one were the cornerstone of respectability. to have a baby outside of wedlock would be breaking one of the most potent taboos. till death us do part. but what if you did become pregnant before you married? i was really, really scared, and ijust blotted i was working at the holiday camp in bognor, i was going out with one of the redcoats, we became intermittent i got pregnant. became intermittent i got pregnant- became intermittent i got reunant. ., .. ,, .,, pregnant. veronica smith was unmarried- my mother didn t tell my father because she said it would kill him. so he never knew? no. ever? never. it was regarded as so shameful that veronica was secretly sent to a mother and baby home
in another part of london. she and her mother had to create a story to explain her disappearance to her father. i used to meet my mother at wimbledon station, and she would come with paper and an envelope, and we d concoct this letter that i was working away from home in spain, and that i was having a good time, that i would be home soon. and take it back to my father, obviously took it out of the envelope. bless him, hejust thought it was true. thought you were away? yeah. this was in 1967, i was 16. i was really, really scared and ijust blotted the whole thing out, because apparently that s what teenagers do. diana defries was 16 when she became pregnant. for many young women like her, the shock of telling her family was soon followed by their first encounter with the state