[dmz]

I do not follow your reasoning.

In what way was he doing "an honorable thing"?

It does come off as a bit hypocritical to engage in, ummm, relations with someone of a particular socio-economic class, and then work to deny that class equality before the law.

Am I missing something?

[docmcb]

Well, of course, the most right thing would have been to not engage in fornication to begin with. I'm not clear whether Strom knew about the pregnancy at the time? If his first contact with his daughter was at age 16? But "honorable" at least in the sense that I can think of two worse things than what he did: denying his responsibility and refusing any sort of support.