Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-19375618-20131216022004/@comment-1293767-20131219175516

OnceUponaTimeFan2 wrote: Because if the past changed in Going Home, Regina is NOT his adopted mother. She was never his "adopted mother" at all, since she in no way legally adopted him.

But they didn't change the past, they only changed Emma's and Henry's memories of the past.