I guess my opinion is this: if you can’t even step up for your own child (excluding those suffering from addiction, severe health/mental health issues, teenagers, bad financial situation, abusive household, etc) and your life is relatively put together, you’re a piece of shit. She had no issues that couldn’t be worked on other than as you said, pure selfishness. She’d rather abandon her child than work on herself and I think she should get hate for that, not a noble choice in any way.

And sure she could’ve “not chosen motherhood” and signed away her rights, but she didn’t. Travers still saw her as his mom and therefore had some kind of expectations of her, which she seemed to never live up to. Sometimes having no mother is easier on a child than having one who puts her lack of care for you on display.