Seriously? Terry was 27 years old and they grew up in different places. WHO CARES where he went to HS. It was a stupid question and this poor lady had the grace to answer it honestly. If I had just recently learned that my daughter was murdered, I wouldn't even be able to tell you my name, never mind what high school my ex went to. Lots of people have children without getting married. Please refrain from passing moral judgements and making sweeping generaliztions.
I have to agree with the OP that it is odd to me, at my advanced geriatric age, that people decide to make the life changing decision to have children together without knowing anything about their partner/co-parent.
I mean, hell, I wouldn't live with someone I did not know well let alone make babies with that person. Not as a conscious choice, anyway.
I know sometimes people hook up and whoops! here comes baby and the daddy (or mommy)is not one's life partner.
But I admit it concerns me the casual nature with which this generation (again, yes, I am old an irrelevant) regards familial relationships and their importance in the emotional security and growth of children, especially when very young.
I have seen and counseled, first-hand, children who suffer under the stress of loosey-goosey parenting and it is heartbreaking.
Sorry for the OT but the attack on the OP for making, IMO, a valid point and addressing a very real concern for the children born into these casual, fleeting relationships, was unwarranted.
It is not, IMO, a judgement, but a astute observation.
IMO, JMO, MOO