Excellent points, also add to that the problems of breast feeding in public! A real problem. But, Dunham was a young woman, going to school, her husband went back east to attend harvard, cash was low. Breast Milk was free and calmed the baby. Diapers were an issue that everyone dealt with, laundrys were filled with young mothers with diapers to wash, yard sales were a ready supply of used, clean, cloth diapers. It was economics. Dunham had friends in Seattle as a support group, none in Hawaii, and was an outsider in Kenya. It was a natural progession to go where her friends were, and away from parental influences. She probably stayed with those friends until she got on her feet again, and Obama Sr does not seem the type, to me, to care about anyone but himself, so she was on her own. He did not attend the birth of his son, was a polygamist, being already married by his tribe to a local girl...not the best genetic material IMO.
Obama Sr. wasn’t at Harvard when Stanley Ann landed in Seattle with Barry 0. He was in Hawaii for another year. She was, indeed, on her own.
The working theory, from some who have been close to the purported Kenyan BC that some in Washington have seen, is that the Obama-Dunham “marriage” took place in Kenya in early 1961, Ann and Sr. probably having traveled there (likely by boat) between the winter 1960 and spring 1961 semesters. That would explain the lack of marriage records in Hawaii. Then Sr. returned to Hawaii for school and she stayed (hid out?) in Kenya for the duration of the pregnancy.
There are eyewitness accounts that say she tried to fly back to the U.S. late in the pregnancy but was denied boarding and ultimately gave birth in Mombasa, then flew back as soon as possible afterward. Seattle or Vancouver would have been a stopover, and that would explain her appearance there in Aug. ‘61 and her inexperience. Whether she returned to Hawaii before late 1962 is not known, but she and Obama Sr. apparently never lived together after the baby was born.
You probably already know all that. Just rehashing.
She was enrolled at U. Washington in the Autumn of '61. Her transcript says from Aug. 19th, although *regular* classes did not start until late September. Barrack Senior, did leave Hawaii for Harvard until the end of the Spring Semester in '62. She left him, he did not leave her. Assumign there was a real relationship to "leave" in the first place.