Who would get preggers out of wedlock at eighteen with a Kenyan Muslim? Stanley was not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Given that, I can see her jumping on a plane to Kenya if daddo demanded it. I can see her frolicking on the beach ‘til her water broke. Ditz.
Then she married an abusing Muslim from Indonesia and abandoned Barry to live with his grandparents...
I’m trying to get inside Ann/Stanley’s mom’s head. Why would she announce grandson Barack’s birth in the Hawaii newspaper? Was she trying to legitimize and Americanize it in some way? That’s assuming she adhered to early 1960s mores which, although inching toward liberal, were still often quite traditional. I graduated from a public high school in Orlando in 1969, and out-of-wedlock pregnancy was still a hushed, shameful event. I wonder what her parents thought about her global cavorting and loose lifestyle?