Unwed Mothers

It was spelled out to me in no uncertain terms that a woman could not have a baby until she was married. I thought there was some kind of biological transformation that enabled pregnancy after the wedding. The sisters also told us that the only true vocation was for boys to be priests and girls to be nuns. When I passed that on to my brother he said then there would be no more children. What about ‘unwed mothers,’ I shot back. I had heard of them and figured they were an anomaly that could keep the human race going.