She makes a statement that shows a bit of caring for the boy, but still leaves him behind for fear that she cannot take care of him appropriately while taking care of herself. She states, "And now I was greatly perplexed about my little boy, It was death to me to part with the child, and yet when I considered the danger of being one time or other left with him to keep without a maintenance to support him, I then resolved to leave him where he was; but then I concluded also to be near him myself too, that I might have the satisfaction of seeing him, without the care of providing for him." (P: 125) She ends this quote by saying she does not want to care for the boy, but would like to see him time to time. This shows a bit of maternal feelings toward this child, but it also shows how once again she abandons another child for her own selfish motives. .
Moll's next husband James is a good man, but ends up leaving her because of financial problems. This relationship Moll decides to be a faithful honest wife, and she expects a sober good husband in return. It almost seemed like she was going to change, until after he leaves, and she finds out she is again pregnant. She has no friends or any acquaintances to help her and says some appalling things about miscarrying. She states, "But my apprehensions were that I should miscarry; I should not say apprehensions, for.
indeed I would have been glad to miscarry, but I could never be brought to entertain so much as a thought to endeavoring to miscarry, or for taking anything to make me miscarry, I abhorred it, I say so much the thought of it." (P: 171) She wishes she could miscarry, but would never do anything to make herself miscarry. The fact that the women in her residence are being cruel toward her pregnancy, and the fact that she is alone are her reasoning behind thinking this way. Even the thought of wanting your unborn child to be miscarried is repulsive and not very motherly, which again shows Moll has no regard for her children.
