Setting aside the circumstances surrounding the conception and the moral problems raised by them, the welfare of the baby should be the court’s ultimate concern and it appears that this was the approach of the judge. In that aspect, I dont really have a problem establishing the 17 year old’s obligation to assist in supporting and raising the baby. What I dont get is why the seven hour restriction in visitation? If you’re going to make the teenager fully responsible for his actions regardless of whether or not he was ‘coerced’ then he should get full visitation privileges without restrictions.
So how does placing the child in a home the mother's step-father, a convicted domestic abuser, figure in with the welfare of the baby?