I was going through IVF taking 3 pregnancy tests a week at a doctor's office and it was still kind of a gray area until like 7 weeks both times.

My grandmother was fired from her job when she told her boss she was pregnant in 1964. She needed her husband's permission to reapply after my aunt was born. She was an elementary school teacher.

Don't like that one bit.

But this has evolved into a belief in some circles that grandparents are always entitled to visitation or even partial custody leading the estranged grandparents to threaten their adult children with custody hearings.

Sort of yea! There are extremely limited circumstances where grandparents may be granted some sort of visitation. Typically when their child has died and the surviving parent attempts to sever the relationship (eg "forget about them this is your new mommy and she's your family now").

This was really really excellent. I wonder how much the "parents' rights" movement of the 80s and 90s is fueling the modern "grandparents' rights" movement as they'd be the same generation engaging in both.

Or be in contact with mandatory reporters

It does! You stop catching it and they go longer between illnesses, get over it more quickly, and it seems to bother them less.

And they miss at least a day or two a month because they're sick but you still have to pay for those days.