it'z good he is owning up to it. Not that it happened in this story but I hate it when women don't tell a guy that he got them pregnant. I agree that they shouldn't get married just because she is pregnant but if they really like each other and continue to date maybe they will marry eventually.
As I am sure you know people can still be great fathers even if their job takes them away a lot. As long as both parents show they love the kid , hopefully each other as well but even just being civil to each other is sometimes good enough. Both need to spend time with the kid together when possible. My dad worked in a different state than my brothers, my mom and I did when I was in grade school. His work would contract him out and most of the time except for when weather was bad he came home for the weekend. Monday- friday he flew out to wherever his consulting company needed him to go. One year he was even in Europe for 3 month and only got to come home once. But we all knew he loved us and would rather be home. Also being older now and having different thoughts about sometimes long distant relationships it also worked because of my mom and dads communication with each other and faithfulness.
Military families spend a lot of time away from each other too. I have 2 brothers in the military both are married. Only the one has a kid. He was gone for 9 months one deployment and 7 month another deployment all within the 3 years since my nephew was born. Little man knows daddy love hims and that he is just at work. My sister in law even has a little corner in the house with a map where she circled where their house is and where daddy is at. She also has two different clocks one is set to Our time/ Taylor's time and the other one is set too Daddy's time. It is really cute.
Now that I have shared my gift of gab. ( sorry by the way.) I just want to say love the story and great job with the last post