I don’t know…it still seems a little overblown. We don’t go around talking about how we didn’t know “that” kind of love (best friend love) until we met our first BFF. We don’t go around talking about how to we didn’t know “that” kind of love (romantic love) until we had our first romantic relationship…

I’m trying to understand why there exists such a need to define a love for a child so specifically and to emphasize the “unconditional.” Is it celebratory? In that case, I get it, but also…again, I’m still not sure what the purpose of that is.

And aren’t we all striving for unconditional love in all relationships? So why do we focus so much on that when it comes to children? Isn’t the “unconditional” implied in that specific situation? And again, aren’t we hoping all relationships experience that level of love (however differently it might manifest)?

These are not challenges to your comment, by the way, but just examples of where my thoughts are going. I’m just curious about it. What’s behind it and why is it so important to put this one relationship/role/kind of love into a box and set it aside from all other relationships/roles/kinds of love? It’s so interesting to me…