Here's the kicker.
I was adopted.
My mother, during my adult life, wondered why I never tried to find my birth mother. She did, after all, more or less give up on raising me, only using my childhood as a way of getting food stamps and subsidized housing. (She was conservative = my husband divorced me, now the government is my husband, because women don't work.)
What am I going to do? Find a mother who gave me up and torture her by telling her how I was abused?