[Magdalen] Gap year (or more)

[Lynn Ronkainen]

People often fear that which they can not control. By taking control the powers that be seemed to banish fear. No birth control or pregnant HS girls was a combo of banishment and punishment IMO. "Lesson teaching" - and look where that path has led. 
Lynn 

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On May 30, 2015, at 5:49 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

One of my bosses, a woman born during the depression, told me
she had to go to Connecticut to get her first diaphragm, They
were not legally available to unmarried women in Massachusetts.
Connecticut had no such law.

I am still shaking my head over a society that threw pregnant
women out of high school.
-M

> On Saturday, May 30, 2015, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> When I first attended the Johns Hopkins University in 1948 as an
> undergraduate, a certain hill near the stadium was known as rubber hill.
> Wikipedia tells me condoms have been in use for 400 years. By the time I
> got married in the mid 1950s, my wife continued into graduate school and
> had a diaphragm which, in its more modern form, was invented in the 1880s,
> popularized in Europe and reintroduced to the USA by Margaret Sanger after
> WW1.
> 
>