The man needs to be dignified by reinforcing both the rights and the obligations of natural fatherhood. He needs to co-parent his child under some system of visitation or co-custody. He looks old enough for us to expect some maturity, and -— if he lives up to the job description — to honor him for it.
The thing is, if he had been truly supprtive of the child and wanted some kind of responsibility or custody, the courts and the lesbians would have barred him from such saving and redeeming role model recognition.
No, it is like the state: they want your money and the recognition they want to keep for themselves as redistributors. It is a hostage situation.