Well, a mama bear would never be traveling with, or living with an adult offspring who is well into having 3 cubs, or ANY cubs, the mama bear would have kicked out the daughter cub after about 1.5 years re black bears and 2-3 years re grizzlies. Mama bears are fiercely protective of their non adult cubs when they get near danger, IE carrying them by the neck to keep then off a road, and strongly cuffing them to teach them right from wrong. They finally kick them out by sometimes even carrying them into a snowfield where the older cub will have to fend for itself and mama can get away in the meantime.
Yes a Mama bear and her non adult cubs can get into problems like eating garbage that irresponsible humans have left out, or because humans go into the bears' territory to hike, or to kill the bears.So then the human can be in grave danger, and the bears will probably be put down.
So, what I'm getting at, IMO, that the gma is not a mama bear protecting her trice-reproducing female daughter from harm.
She is, IMO, merely enabling the life choices of that adult daughter, however sickening those choices may be. . She already told the press that her adult daughter's story doesn't add up, and she told Q's father that her adult daughter may have let Q drown in a tub while she was drugging it up. She went out drinking with her adult daughter just when LE was starting a terrible search for the baby,you'd think a responsible mama bear would have instilled some respect for life in that 22 year old mother of 3.
imo
Not picking on you, charminglane, just that we've seen that Momma Bear excuse being used in the media, and to my mind it's usually used as an excuse for bombastic, very unbearlike human behavior