Over the last decade have looked back at the whole ‘90s “kids having kids!” freakout, daytime talk and all, how it was kind of framed (condoms in schools!) as if it was about young couples, enabled by a decadently permissive culture, fucking instead of Waiting For Marriage. But it was really about The 70s having worked their way through the culture so thoroughly that teenage working class girls everywhere were getting knocked up by older men.

Some of which might have been fucking them on an American Beauty neighborhood dad or teacher-groomer basis, but a lot of which was really more of a Dazed and Confused thing – blue-collar men graduate high school but don’t leave town and stay in the same automobile/intoxication-based social scene and as they grow older the girls stay the same age.