I liked that one fishandjam, there are some excellent books about the body farm I also enjoyed, have you come across those?
Right illegitimacy.
Lincoln woman recalls that her daughter got pregnant out of wedlock at fifteen or sixteen and had to get married (1959). She says 'he could have got something from the barbers (condoms) but our C always said that he didn't need a haircut'. The deed was done in the local cemetery.
One woman remembers a woman in the 1930s who had four illegitimate babies but still married and had more children with her husband who took on her kids too.
A doctors son who got a woman pregnant. His parents looked after the woman financially and she returned to work for them once her daughter was born. Their son was sent away abroad.
Administrator of the Harmston Colony- a place for unmarried mothers. 'Girls and women who were mentally handicapped, unmarried and had given birth to an illegitimate baby were committed to the hospital under the mental health act. They were termed feebleminded or moral defectives.… Once admitted, the mother had no say in whether or not she left the hospital.'
Nurse from St. John's hospital. ' Parents or relatives of the unmarried mother could say that she was insane and then no formalities were necessary to admit them into a mental institution. Once the woman was admitted into the hospital she took on' copy behaviour': she acted like the other patients in order to survive.'
Story of a woman who got pregnant by an American serviceman. He was waiting on the dock as she arrived in America and he shouted up to her on the boat 'don't get off the boat, I'm married!'. She made a new life in America
89 year old man tells us that his great grandparents generation exchanged hair when the man went off to sea, 'that's not the sort on their heads but the other'
From Margaret Sutton's book. There is more but that's all I have time for.