"The child was about two years old when the woman divorced the father and decided to look for "something more" for her.
This woman was the product of a very liberal upbringing, and was very open, before she got pregnant, about her disdain for the typical burdens of parenting."
she could have been depressed. I've seen women act like that when they suffered from postpartum depression.
There aren't conservative men who divorce their wives and have disdain for parenting? So working women have disdain for parenting and are looking to get involved with other men and run off with them? Just to clue you in working women carry the typical burdens of parenting and then some. But more often than not the husband has to be more involved with the children.
"she could have been depressed. I've seen women act like that when they suffered from postpartum depression."
She spoke with the same disdain about mothering before she had the child. She was simply a self-centered child.