I kinda think the point isn’t what she cannot become. I think it’s more about how much harder it is going to be and how unfair it is that the boy gets to just walk away…
At the same time as she and her daughter get to know this child, they will likely start to feel like it is they who have gotten the better part of the deal.
But it is still a very serious and big responsibility. I think also just because you go to college doesn’t mean you get to experience it.
I was pregnant the first semester of my university experience. And it was very different for me. I was not the typical student and was treated accordingly by my peers. I was also married at the time too.
I often wonder as a divorced mom and college graduate, how that experience may have been had I done things the more traditional way. I don’t regret my son by any means. It just made things different.
The means they have isn’t knowledge you are privy to either, so you might be making some assumptions here.
Just my two cents…