I do not believe many modern Americans can comprehend the feelings that would have been embodied in a white Kansas couple upon finding out their daughter had been impregnated by a black man in 1961. It was in fact a crime in many states at that time, and the social consequences in that era would have been severe.
For this among other reasons, the idea that Stanley Ann would be shipped off to live with a relative is quite reasonable. For whatever reason, we know she spent a great deal of time separated from her mother and father and this was obviously connected to issues surrounding this pregnancy and birth.
Even the official narrative has her leaving her family for nearly a year, and a very obvious explanation for this is a big blow up with her parents over getting pregnant by a black guy. The fact that she didn't enroll for the Semester in January of 1961 indicates that she may have realized she was going away in December of 1960.
Why else would she waste a semester in the early days of her pregnancy when it would have been little trouble for her to attend? If she was just sitting around the house all day listening to records, she could have just as easily been going to the University to keep working on her degree.
She attended the fall of 1960, so one would have thought she would have attended the next semester as well. That she didn't is possibly the result of her not being there in Hawaii at the time.
Those are good points. I’ll just add, had SA been sitting around the house playing records, she’d have been noticed. Specifically, she’d have been noticed by the teen resident of the house. It was a three bedroom ranch; had SA been there, Cindy would have known it. But despite Maraniss interviewing Cindy and everyone else in HI he could find, he was unable to place SA in HI during her pregnancy.
She wasn’t there.