The Mormons have their temples and "The World" has their ultrasounds.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153049348670410&set=a.10150091994225410.287951.610065409&type=1&theater

I've known several couples where baby makes a marriage happen.

I thought this was not a really smart reason to marry? Maybe I'm just old fashion.

Just once I'd like to see a knocked up bride wearing a fire engine red gown.

I had a friend who did that. Her father walked her down the aisle with her on one arm and a white shotgun in the other. It was funny. Great wedding. They're still together 40 years later.

My very Catholic cousin married his very pregnant wife, surprisingly in white. They had always planned on getting married after she got pregnant to ensure that the legitimacy of our grandmother, who was pregnant with our oldest uncle when she and our grandfather got married, was okey-dokey. I love him.

I never knew it was historically more common than I had previously thought. I am from Utah.



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There's something not quite right about all of this. It's hard to tell when she got engaged and when she got pregnant. That photo looks like it's from August 11.

check profile they got engaged this christmas and the linked picture is from August14

Well ... ya... thankful for living in a tine where a baby isn't a reason to get married in a hurry.
But BF and I announced it in a similar way, that we will have a little bundle of joy. Funniest comments were those of Morgs that stunningly asked when we married and how they could have missed it.... ^^
But as I observed the mormons are getting away from templesqare engagement pics to pictures taken in front of huge trees or parks to announce their holy union.

I once checked records in Plymouth Massachusetts in the early sixties and in at least 40% of marriages a baby arrived in under eight months. Since in some cases there are miscarriages, I figure half of the marriages were due to pregnancy.

It may be the only reason to get married. Kids need marriage. Adults don't.

Excellent point.

Disagree.

Statistically, married people have better quality-of-life indices (health, financial stability, freedom from alcoholism & mental health problems, general happiness, and so on). Lots of studies bear this out. Lots of people will provide lots of exceptions, I'm sure, but I'm discussing this in terms of large population groups.

Marriage is no ticket to happiness, but it does improve your odds.

An interesting demonstration is that married people tend to be better surviving life-threatening disasters, even when they are significantly older than the younger ones. One example is the Donner Party, where it was the bachelors who had the highest mortality rate.

Another excellent point.

Life is soooo not black and white.

It's been a few decades since I read "Ordeal By Hunger" (great history), but I recall that (1) the actual consumption of human cadavers was not done an awful (pun intended) lot, and (2) they took care that nobody consumed their own family, but the very frozen corpses of others.

Some of the survivors exaggerated and sensationalized the situation later, out of a strange need for infamy or to profit from the experience in various ways. If you have to get your head out of LDS issues, "Ordeal By Hunger" is an...ahem...engrossing read.

My TBM ex-FIL and MIL spent years trying to convince their kids that they didn't "have" to get married over Thanksgiving break their senior year of high school (and not in the temple). And their first baby was just premature when she was born 7 months later (weighing 7.5 lbs.).

I guess that due to her age and immanent demise, recently my ex-MIL finally admitted to her daughter that she was pregnant with her when they got married. Daughter replied with, "Mom, I've known that since I learned how to add." MIL was mortified that her kids had all figured it out before she told them. Hell, all her grandkids knew it. It just didn't matter to them. They told their grandmother that what mattered is that they had a successful 50+ year marriage. But it has always been the family joke and we always wondered if their parents thought the kids believed that. Apparently they did.

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I don't get why he feels it's okay to share a person's facebook profile for everybody on here to see.

If you can see it, they did it not me. Why is it a problem for you?

Edit: it is a photo. If you choose to browse them that is your problem and theirs.



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Because I don't think they were expecting somebody to put it on a message board to be made fun of.

Making fun of them? No. But I would if I thought it was worthy of it. And you know people can make things private right? If I care what people do with my Facebook posts I would make them private.

I don't understand how an open Internet is so closed in some people's minds. It is like putting up a poster on the street and someone asking me not to gather a few people who have no idea who that person was to laugh at it.

Nannying the Net is and interesting viewpoint but one I do not hold.