01-16-2017, 05:32 PM
(01-16-2017, 03:35 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:(01-16-2017, 02:12 PM)flbones too Wrote: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr66/nvsr66_01.pdfOf course, in 1957, what was different is that most of those teenage pregnant women were 18- and 19-year-olds who were married to their high school sweethearts working at the GM factory. That was considered normal that that day and age.
Back in 1957, during the peak of the baby boom, almost one in ten teenage girl was pregnant. For women in their early 20s, that figure was over 1/4 and as high as almost 1/3 in some states.
Yep, my grandmother told me she was the last one of her friends to get married and she was 18. Most of her friends married at 16 and 17. I know there was a big surge in teenage marriages and pregnancies during the High era. The trend towards early marriage persisted until the time of the oil crisis in the early 70s. Millennials are definitely having to put off marriage in like wise ages.