She is engaged and proactive in Harvey's education and placements. She has has a good understanding and patience with him. In that respect she musters up strength that not everyone with a complex needs child can due to exhaustion etc. In that respect she is a good mum. Like most mums she isn't 100% perfect 100% of the time but she doesn't lack love and passion for them. Just because your a train wreck or addict doesn't automatically exclude a deep love of your kids. Her heart is in the right place. Her MH prevents her meeting her potential to match her love to the way she parents. I don't think it's because she doesn't care to sort out her life. It's because she doesn't have the stability to get there.
I don't think there is 100% conscious choice about her bad desisions. Plus this is her only living. Who honestly could pull off being a role model mum as a public sex worker? She has been exploited from a young girl. I just can't find the vitriol to hate her.
I'm sure she wants her kids to be stable and happy. But for whatever reason she can't match that. Lots of mums don't love their kids but live in nice houses, send their kids to private schools. Do good stable respectful jobs. Have a good respectful "front" but they inside they don't have a deep passionate love or cuddle and praise. Society says that a mum who has kids because it's the done thing but criticises, emotionally neglects them but has a nice house, job, car is better than than the mum with four kids with four dads but loves them all deeply but can't quite meet all their needs due to time, money etc. Maybe both types are selfish and feckless. Aren't we all? I'm not perfect. My hearts in the right place and 90% of the time I'm trying to give 100% My 100% might look different to more capable mum. I'm doing MY best.
I think she is trying her best. But maybe this is her giving her 110%. I'd be a mess if had the online hate she has.