[irishjuggler]

His mother died giving birth to him, and his father always blamed him for her death. He beat him, called him a murderer - "You murdered your mother"

That's sad. And it's a horrible (though, unfortunately, not uncommon) accusation made against kids whose mother died giving birth to them. In fact, there's a character on the TV show 'Lost' whose father tells him the same thing. It's fictional, obviously, but I've heard of folks whose fathers likewise blamed them.

[AnAmericanMother]

Believe me, that fiction came from real life.

In the days when far more women died in childbirth, this sort of resentment was not uncommon.

Good men kept it to themselves and didn't burden their child with it.