"[N]o self-respecting career-oriented peer who conceived out of wedlock would have considered bringing that pregnancy to term."

It seems like ancient history at this point, but as one who came of age as a 1970s Ivy Leaguer, no self-respecting career-oriented peer who conceived out of wedlock would have considered bringing that pregnancy to term.

And sacrifice the promise of a "good" marriage, rewarding career and children who would later be born to two involved, concerned, emotionally and financially secure parents? The tradeoff was not worth discussing.

--Bonnie Erbe, "A World Gone Mad", Scripps Howard News Service, 18 June 2007.