@Schmacky wrote:
I’m sorry but that entire paragraph after the quote is completely moot and pointless. It doesn’t matter if she thought her kid would eat sweets or go to Emma’s or whatever… she made a poisoned dessert where he could have access to it. It doesn’t matter if she thought he’d eat it or not… she made it happen. She made it. She attempted to poison someone. That is bad. Very bad. And his condition is solely her fault. Because if she never made it he never would have fell victim to it.
Of course it matters that she didn’t expect Henry to eat it. Yes, she’s the one who poisoned the damn thing but if her intentions were never meant for Henry and if she truly wouldn’t imagine him eating it, how is that remotely connected to bad parenting???
Sure, he would never ever be in that state if she didn’t create the curse in the first place so it is her fault – I badly formulated my words before – but it was intended for Emma and Emma only and you cannot under any circumstances connect that to being a bad mother trying to kill her kid. I bet she would rather die than let him get hurt this way.
EDIT: Legal adoption or not – that would be Gold’s case, not Regina’s.