It seems to me that ballads about unplanned pregnancy are usually written from the woman's POV. ("...I wish my baby it was born/And smilin' on his daddy's knee/And me poor girl to be dead and gone/With the long green grass/Blowin' over me....")

From the man's POV it seems to be a reason for murder, a joke/threat ("...behind the door/her father kept a shotgun..."), or he arrives too late ("...he found her hanging from a rope...").