This could fall into a number of categories, and is actually on behalf of my brother.
He's 23. He slept with an 18 year-old who has a boyfriend, and she's now pregnant. The medical tests pinpoint conception to within a week of their having sex. They didn't use a condom (although she says she uses one with her boyfriend).
Background: The girl is actually my brother's ex-girlfriend's SISTER. She was in town briefly when they got together, but otherwise they live in separate cities. The girl (who I'll call Jackie) currently has a boyfriend, who is apparently a jerk (according to her sister/the ex, who I'll call Monica). The boyfriend (aka "Jerk") knows that Jackie is pregnant. He doesn't know that it [probably] belongs to my brother ("Edward"). If he were to find out that Jackie cheated on him, he would dump her.
Edward and Jackie didn't use a condom because Jackie told him that she has a condition that renders her "barren." After she got pregnant, however, Monica told Edward that her chances of ever getting pregnant are more like 20% (evidently).
Jackie wants to keep the child, because she's afraid she'll never be able to conceive again. Edward, who lives in another city, has plans to go back to school and build a better life for himself. He's not able to talk with Jackie because the intensely jealous Jerk monitors her every move, and they live together.
I have personally never been in this sort of situation, but I told my brother Edward that a) he needs to talk with Jackie, b) he needs to be responsible yet not give up his goals, c) that he's not obligated to marry her just because she's pregnant, and that it would be in fact a bad idea at their ages (in my opinion), and d) that no matter what happens, Jackie needs to break up with Jerk.
If the DNA tests prove that it is indeed Edward's child, what do you think is the right thing for him to do?
