First, it's important to realize not all women were meant to be mothers. This is a a rather suppressed fact in our baby-obessed modern times. And in that way I can feel a weird sort of sympathy towards Anthony necause she was trapped in a role she didn't want with little clue as to how to escape. Well, maybe she could have abandoned the little girl, but the noncustodial mother is severely stigmatized by the same pronatalist steretypes that created the myth of "motherly love".
No, you mother didn't love you. Just because she pushed you out of the cooter is not an automatic confirmation of love and bonding. Thats a myth propagated by the Cult of Motherhood. Real love can happen between any two individuals and takes time. It's not going to happen within a few hours. In reality, "motherly love" is a facade for being controlling, entitled, resentful, and cosntantly lying about realities of that awful nightmare called motherhood. Look at how many kids are abused, neglect, or abandoned every year. Obviously, giving birth to someone is not a ticket to that mythical "unconditional love". Really mothers are not that great of a people and can be very resentful and manipulative of kids. Kids ultimately end up suffering the most, but women in praticular do not care about the harm they inflict. To them kids and men are just tools in the bag to be used for their own purposes: financielly, materially, emotionally, and mentally. Have you ever heard about the kid who announed they were gay or wanted to join a different religion and the mother rejected them for it?
Obviously, motherly love has its limits.
I could go so far as to say mothers don't even really love there kids as they confuse their infatuation for the former. For how many times are kids abused and neglected and discounted by mothers (many cases of which we probably never even hear about as society believes in the "mother can do no wrong" myth)? Even if no harm is apparent are we to mistake the biological protective urge for "love". How many kids are born into unstable lives, forced upon them by their selfish and irresponsible mothers who had the power to get an abortion instead? If they truly care about kid why would they force them to live in "broken" homes or with mentally-unstable mother? Love is not supposed to hurt for surely its no love at all, but the societal and familial pressure to keep the kid- even from the father. How not uncommon is it for mothers to have kids by men who abuse them, never been in a relationship with, don't allow father to have relationship with kid, are in usntable relationship, have issues of their own, and all this ends up with poor kid having shitty homelife or being stuck with only mother to turn to. You can't care too about even your offspring when you don't care about another human being first. How do we know what so many single mothers do to their kids behind closed doors? Why should we assume motherhood is more important or superior to fatherhood?
The "mother can do no wrong" and "mother kows best" are old adages from a yesteryear era that held family values on an alter to be worshipped. But we've since learned that many women would probably live better lives with more opportunity if they didn't have kids- that boundless freedom called childfree. Childfree women are seflish? Bullshit. A father must prove that he is suitable for childrearingby jumping through loopholes, but no where is a mother required to prove she is suitable likewise. How many of these childed women expose kids to dangerous situations such as the promicius one dragging in a new fling each week? Or every few weeks or a month. Can you possibly say you really care about someone when you needlesly endanger them? What of the mothers who allow their latest fling to abuse the kids or raise kids in a dangerous neighborhood? Does someones irresponsible decision to breed when they shouldn't have give them a right to do whatever they feel entitled to do to their offspring?