Stacey was his fiancee. How long had they been engaged?
Long enough to produce a kid. I guess that I am just old-fashioned but I cannot understand why anyone would engage in reproduction outside marriage. What a terrible disservice to the child!
As an aside, whenever I see something like this "accident" I think of what Brother Dave Gardner once said, "I don't believe in accidents. To me, it's all premeditated carelessness." Amen.