I have to say I totally agree with you. It’s sad to think that a baby would be better off without her mother, but in this case it is probably true.
None of us know how she will grow up, ultimately... but the odds are in her favor instead of against her now... if she turns out to be the beauty it appears she is going to be, she will be a very-grounded parent,
ya know, I have a theory, that Anna wasn't doing as much drugs as was portrayed to the press before or during her pregnancy, just based on what the Shelleys and Coens and others have said, and we still have a lack of any physical evidence of 'detox' from Apr 06.
I think she was finally running away from Los Angeles - with her son's encouragement and the Shelley's support. With Daniel's move to the Bahamas and taking over as her manager, HK would have been out of the daily picture and the video-ed appearances that were orchestrated to have resulted in loss of custody if she had lived, wouldn't have happened. Things would have been a lot different if HK hadn't shown up in the Bahamas.
I don't think that Daniel would have let his mom take drugs, and Anna did raise him to be a fine young man. I think Daniel wouldn't have let Anna be hounded to death by her old 'crew' of hangers-on, either. And the custody battle would have run out of steam and got back to a 'normal' level of Daddy visitation and child support.
Daniel was the only one in Anna's life who wanted nothing from her, and she trusted him enough to always do the right thing' even when she thought he had 'changed' she didn't change her will. I'd like to think, that, approaching 40, Anna had decided to turn over a new leaf, and raise her baby with Daniel running interference for a while, and Grandma Virgie cuddling with her grandbaby on visits in between LB's visits.