Absolutely no surprise here. In fact, it should have been expected.
The formal divorce did somethings of use for mother and child.
a) Legitimized the child with a father. And not just some father - a famous (in Hawaii) Kenyan with royal family connections.
b) Legitimized an out of wedlock scandalous pregnancy and birth for the mother - and the family.
c) Got the ‘real’ father off the hook. Frank Marshall Davis? Malcolm X? Some random guy from Hawaii? Who knows, but with this legally created family (through the faux divorce) now formally documented someone was off the hook. I continue to think FMD comes into play but who knows.
Remember assuming any of the story is correct - mom and child were in Washington UNTIL Obama Sr. was GONE from Hawaii. AND the divorce was ONE WAY. i.e. Obama Senior never signed or acknowledged anything at all. The divorce records show a registered or certified mailing receipt. But nothing came back from Obama Senior. So he may not have even been a willing party to this action. Since he was gone from Hawaii never to return (until his presence was needed in December 1971) he was the perfect stand in father for the purposes.
Nothing shocking here at all. The divorce is still the first time there is apparently a valid legal record of a child (and mother) named Obama. With the happy family narrative from dreams blown apart this finding would fit the data points.
My hunch is his Grandad is his dad and some random black woman is his Mom. He may know this or not. So the “mom” stanley who raised him- is his sister. Just my theory...that would explain why there’s no p.g. photos of stanley ann, why there’s no record of her giving birth at ant hospitol, and why he looks like Grandpa.