Some things should not be public knowledge or AIBU?

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I think she is a brave woman for confessing feelings so 'taboo', yet undoubtedly recognised by many, many other mothers..
HOWEVER, no amount of sould searching 'honesty' makes up for the fact that there is alittle girl who knows that her mother doesn't love her. Not only that has told the world she doesn't love her, and had her photographed into the bargain??
WHY Woman, Why??

I hope it is a complete fabrication.

Surely there is no-one on earth who would do something quite as disgusting as this.

You know what, I think there are some very misguided people out there.
stories such as this probably do need to be shared , under anonymity surely, to protect said children.

This could be a case of the woman being goaded into involving her daughter by the journalist?.. i hope to god not.

It seems fabricated at least in parts.

It reads like the sort of story in a cheap supermarket magazine.

I have stopped buying all newspapers as i've become very cynical.

Anyone with that type of complex ought to be talking to a psychoanalyst, not a journalist.

escape, do you know if there is anything to do near hatta?

I think that there are people like this out there, and possibly they might find it useful to know they are not alone. But and it's a big but, why on earth did they not change names and use actors for the photograph (as they did for the "mum and baby"). Poor kid, abandoned by one parent and unloved by the other, she has a tough enough time without being shoved in a newspaper. I just hope the grandmother gave her some love as she grew up, otherwise she must be one damaged child.

never been to hatta, but there is the Hatta Fort Hotel.. and 'Hatta pool's..
erm, sorry to be so rubbish...

Nooka, my point exectly. I usually let most guff wash over me, without becoming too 'incensed' but this has really put me off my cornflakes this morning..

That story is utterly heartbreaking - that poor child rejected by her mother

And I agree this story should have been done anonymously for the sake of the little girl.

i don't think any 'bit' stands out as a fabrication, petrovia. all aspects seem plausible, but by having all the pieces in one story lends itself to some of them being added in for effect.

it is hard to explain succinctly but it strikes me as partially made up for some of the same reasons i can spot some trolls on mn.

every aspect is plausible, but every aspect in the same tale, not plausible.

i also have baby on knee and should be packing.

BT leg is fine; dd2 is a v content baby, but not this minute.

I think it is important that such stories be told - so that people in similar situations feel that they are not alone/a freak/evil and that there is help out there, and they don't have to feel like that, or feel alone.

I think it is outragious that this is not done anonymously, for the sake of that child.

Having said that, I can see that anonymity adds to the feeling of it being something shameful, and you must hide, whereas your story with photo etc, is more open. But that child is going to be terribly hurt and surely that is more important?

OTOH, the mother recognises that it is not acceptable and is working hard to change and has felt terrible guilt, so she's not a horrible person, is she? If what she says is true, she has tried and tried and tried.

So sad.

She must have been paid bucketloads of money.

I feel so sorry for that little girl, her story all over the papers, how tormented she will be at school too.

What a callous, selfish, bitch (and that is putting it mildly).

Awful article - the story may well be worth telling but the daughter's right to privacy should be paramount in this situation, surely?

Yes, I thoroughly dislike this woman. Not because she doesn't love her child - I don't think she can help that and it is obviously eating her up inside, I reckon, but that she would be so cruel as to expose this poor child to the public.
I too hope her GM gives her lots of love and affection.

Foxy - ooh does that mean you are returning home?

The story is worth telling though. Surely she is not the only mother on the planet to feel like this.I hope the family can now get some sort opf threapy to help them.

I really, really should have been done annon', though!

not yet. just for an o/n trip. no where exciting. will let CAT you when i can. possibly not till sunday.

Shame on the DM and shame on the poor girl's mother!

Of course she can't help how she feels, and I hope she gets the help she needs, but telling her daughter this in such a public way is just cruel beyond belief! What was she hoping to achieve? All she's done is alienate her daughter further - was all down to £££££££££?

My heart goes out to that little girl. I can't imaging growing up with a family who said they didn't love me.

It is completely outrgeous that the story was printed - they should be held to account for the emotional abuse of that poor child.

As for the mother - well if its true, I have sympathy for her situation as I imagine it would be extremely difficult to feel like that, and hard to overcome...but...she claims to 'care deeply' about the child, and I don't think thats true. I think she has acted in a shockinlgy selfish way.

Honestly, if she made public that she was beating her child, then the child would be taken from her - how is publicly declaring to the world that she doesn't love her any better? Awful woman, and poor, poor little girl.