The mother of your child is a prostitute, and probably a drug abuser, so you decide your best choice is to leave her (good choice) and to leave your daughter (bad choice) and then you proclaim yourself grief-stricken?
I am betting MOST people today find this guy a sympathetic character. In fact, I would bet they have more sympathy for him than they do for the dead child. After all, he was part of an important social movement, while his deceased daughter was just one of those burdens Planned Parenthood wants to take off our hands.
That was my exact reaction.