There have been a recent influx of news reports in my newsfeed about children who have been killed or seriously injured by their mother's boyfriends or husband and sometimes the mother is involved.

I have watched and read the hundreds of comments on these stories and somehow the 'real mother' still wins over the stepmom. Even when BM is in charge and the child ends up dead she is the 'real mother' and should have acted like it but thank heavens the kid wasn't with dad and dad's woman because she isn't 'the real mother'

WTH?