Welcome Catbird! Good point about the timing of the ms posts by EJ!
I personally am of the opinion that a mother may care about a child so much that she does give up that child for adoption; of course in this case I don't believe EJ should have done such without Logan's approval, married or not, but I do have to consider women try to take their children away from fathers all of the time, and so do men try to block women from their own children -- there may be good reasons for doing so or not, and I believe there was not a good reason in this case, but still does not automatically mean that the children are not cared for
All of that said, IMO EJ planned an adoption for three reasons -- she did care about Gabriel -- she did care about her own life -- she did not care about Logan -- and
not necessarily in that order -- probably the reverse order
I just don't think that I can assume that she did not care for Gabriel at all, just because she wanted to give him up to a couple for adoption
IMO perhaps as Gabriel grew and the milestones were reached, EJ was more and more pressured to do the adoption before he moved from baby to toddler or little boy --
IMO the updates to her MS are telling, as they do seem like she was flaunting and they do seem directed to Logan
I thought I heard that TS said that Logan is the one that pointed her to MS postings? Am I wrong? I think this is telling if true-- as possibly the postings would not have been directed at TS if EJ did not think TS was aware of EJ's ms -- MS postings would not be part of a plan of anyone who knew about running and staying underground as IP addresses are easily traced
IMO we have Logan's statement that she was neglectful, and she was certainly abusive toward Logan, but I have not seen evidence of abuse toward Gabriel as defined here
http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/define.cfm
