User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 530: Neo Eclipse, Review/@comment-5894890-20170409010950/@comment-7418318-20170410054621

@Singsweet: Sure it is a burden, but do you really think that this burden would have been worse for Lucy than losing her mother at a very young age and having to grow up without her?

Sure all the stuff that happened with Jude due to his depression is something that Layla couldn't forsee and thus we can't blame her for all of Lucy's suffering, but still she chose for Lucy to have to grow up without a mother and that by itself is already a really bad thing to put your child through on it's own.