Still suspicious of Swan

Jonathan Swan tweeted this yesterday about the "pro-life" adoption bit from Trump's speech:

Quite a few people have challenged him about this.  Adoption over abortion may well be something that many people favour (in principle, I like the idea too), but in telling the story this way, with the fate of the addicted birth mother left completely unmentioned, seems a dubious way of selling the message.  (Many people feel an even "more beautiful" outcome would have been for the mother to get the addiction treatment she needed via a properly government funded option,  keep her child and go on to lead a productive life as an ex-user.   Successes of that kind do happen.   But no, that doesn't suit the conservative, small government message.)

One other thing - the adoptive father already had 4 kids at age 27?   I know Americans still marry young compared to international figures, but such a reproductive record even in the 1950's would have been on the high side.

Look, almost certainly this indicates a very religious, possibly Catholic background, and I don't wish them ill.  But it would not be at all surprising if this family, under pressure from its reproductive rate and marrying at a young age, later breaks up.   It just has those sort of "danger" hints to me, making it unwise to give it large prominence as an example to the nation.

But young Jonathan Swan seems to recognize nothing of these reasons to not embrace the story as a PR, conservative triumph,  which again really makes me wonder about his background.   Is he a conservative Catholic himself?  NTTAWWT, but I just like to understand reporters and where they are coming from.   Especially if they are reporting on Trump and are not cynical about his pandering to Conservative sentiments.

Update:   Slate makes the same points here.