As much as I agree that I can't bring myself to hate the mom. I also can't bring myself to like her a tiny bit. To forgive her or to not is up to Doyoon but I can't like an adult as a human to leave a vulnerable child in that situation. Abu$er$ never really get better, she knew she had to leave bc he won't treat her any better yet she left her child in there to suffer. Once she is gone the child is next, it doesn't take knowing rocket science to understand that bit. If she couldn't take the child, she should have just left him in an orphanage or something. He was abusive and she had proof, even if she couldn't bring herself to fight him for herself she could have left proof of abuse to cps or something so he can't get the child. Its the part where she made bare minimum effort that makes me dislike her.
I don't mind people who dislike children but I can never like people who bring children to life only to let them suffer.
Hm not to argue cuz I literally don't care about the mom but the cps bit? It isn't usa. I think sm1 mentioned it doesn't work like that in Korea. Nobody would have helped them. Even in reality. Like do u think when actually horrifying bullying is over looked then would this not?
As to why she left him in manhwa. Now it's just a story thats how they are written. If it were real life tho I can't say cuz I'm neither Korean nor American
Hm not to argue cuz I literally don't care about the mom but the cps bit? It isn't usa. I think sm1 mentioned it doesn't work like that in Korea. Nobody would have helped them. Even in reality. Like do u think when actually horrifying bullying is over looked then would this not?
As to why she left him in manhwa. Now it's just a story thats how they are written. If it were real life tho I can't say cuz I'm neither Korean nor American nor sm1 who have witnessed abusing relationship to know what people think during time like this
Almost every country has a body that acts as a child protective services(CPS). I'm neither from US or SK and we have a CPS, SK has a form of CPS too that investigates child abu$e cases and does what is necessary to keep the child safe.
The problem with bullying is usually both the aggressor and victim are underage. And if they are U14, by law they can't be legally prosecuted in SK. There is often not enough evidence in bullying cases. Since usually its a group vs one single person, the group claims the person is lying and without physical evidence it ends up a hearsay. And they are let go for circumstantial evidence. System failures are everywhere, not just SK.
I would have also been against the mom but this time I focused more on Doyoon's character, how resilient he was. And selfless to the very end. He didn't resent his mother and so I couldn't come to either. I don't blame his mother for leaving and not being able to take the child even though that thought does come to mind. But when u r emotionally and physically suffering and imagine u have to take a child that resemble the person who abused u? It will be hard. And as shown even before things got worse she endured for Doyoon, I think the second time his mother knew he was awake when telling him she is gonna leave. And Doyoon couldn't stop her either because he knew she was gonna suffer the more she live with them.
And he is in better place now. As he says his mother's son is dead meaning he doesn't associate himself as her mother's son anymore meaning he has moved on and so should we the readers.