nothing is an excuse, it help though, personally I could live withou my mother, i'd be alot happier, but as I said, my dad is dead, so i don't have a choice, and I'm not stupid, I'll live through this shit so I can get out and into a good place not into the streets. I don't think mothers are really that important, to some children they are, but it's really whichever parent they bond to the most.