Do we want to say that a father (grandparent, aunt) can’t take care of a young child for a week? Suppose the mother was in the hospital for (period of time). Suppose she had to care for a sick parent.
Either we have to say that it’s catastrophic for a child to be separated from his mother for any reason, or we’re simply judging one individual’s reason as insufficient by our personal standards, which we can certainly do if it makes us feel good about ourselves, and she probably doesn’t give a hoot as long as it generates traffic for her article.
Here’s the problem:
“I love and marvel over him as if he were my own heart pushed into the world and, still beating, set on top of my chest. Yet I cannot help but mourn the loss of something I can’t quite place. I have an inner emptiness—literal and figurative—that I’ve never felt before.”
She sounds very depressed.