Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25701646-20150323002940

So, a lot of debate has been going on about how Maleficent "lost" her child. I personally think that "lost" isn't going to mean miscarried but that her child is going to have been sent away or something. Given this interpretation, I was wondering whether anyone else feels it might be for the best that the child was raised by someone else.

After all, Maleficent's a serial killer and isn't choosy with who her victims are. I'm not saying she couldn't have loved her child, but love alone doesn't make someone a good mother. Rumple loved Baelfire but still ended up causing Baelfire to become extremely isolated and, as a result, go on a path where Baelfire had to raise himself. Regina loved Henry, but that didn't stop her from gaslighting him, trying to kill his birth mother, etc. And if you go into real world examples (which the show doesn't really follow), serial killers don't make good parents. Maleficent may have genuinely loved her child (as much as anyone as twisted as she is could) but was it better for the child to be raised by someone else? 