[not_a_teen]

Don't be too hard on the guy, people.

Think of the position he's in: through no fault of his own (how was he to know his gf's birth control would fail?) he's now in the position that if his gf decides to have the baby and keep it, he can be forced to pay child support. Depending on where he lives, that could be a good chunk of his income for the next 18 years.

And yet the only control he has in this situation is his power of persuasion. If his gf decides to keep the baby and file for support, he has to pay. If he never wants a relationship with the child (or is denied one) he still has to pay. Two decades from now he could even be helping put someone he's never met through university.

No wonder he's freaking out.