I was having a Mad Men marathon, and told my friend that I found one storyline upsetting that a woman had just been given a promotion and then suddenly gone into labour (she had no idea she was pregnant) and then giving her baby away, she couldn't even bring herself to hold him. And further episodes down the line you can see that of course it has had an effect on her.
My friend did this and said "That's disgusting, I would never give my baby away"
It make me sad that although it's a tv show I'm sure this situation was common, she was a single woman working in a very male dominated environment in the 70s.
She would have been branded a whore by most people, lost her job, wouldn't be able to support her baby, could lose friends and family, the father was a married man who would have denied the child was his.
I just found her reaction to be quite harsh. Aibu?
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