User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 527: Emotion, Review/@comment-30338537-20170318074156/@comment-24053170-20170318082335

Since his mother was technically dead at the time and he was worried about the power the child potentially had, he figured it was better off doing without it. Plus Precht doesn't really seem to be the type of person to raise children even as a potential member of the guild....unlike Makarov.