Whatever happened to, "Marry the father?" Crazy as it sounds, I've known a lot of good marriages and good families that began with a missed period.
Don't young men have it in them to "man-up" and become husbands and fathers anymore?
My daughter returned from her second deployment to Afghanistan, six months pregnant, 38 years old and unmarried. She could have aborted the child in Afg, but chose to carry her to term. I flew up to be with her (her mother had died almost ten years earlier). She did some serious scouting for appropriate adoptive parents. She and I took the day-old infant girl to them. It was the right decision for my daughter. She has an “open adoption” where in she can occasionally visit her (she is breath-takingly beautiful little girl); they live several hundred miles apart. A child was adopted by a successful family, and my daughter could carry on with her career, knowing that her daughter couldn’t be in better hands. I think the father, a contractor, contributed to some of the pre-natal medical costs.