Intentionally raising a child without a father is child abuse. Unintentionally doing so is a different case--it's on par with unintentionally letting them die of starvation or disease, presumably because one is ignorant of the seriousness of the child's condition, or is too stupid to call a doctor.
So any mother ,that is forced to raise her children alone,because of reasons like the death of the father...
You're changing the subject: we're talking about Laitaille, not a war-widow. She didn't lose her husband; she never had a husband. She cheerfully made babies with a man without making him say "I do" first. That means exactly one of two things: she's stupid enough to believe that he'll stay forever, because he whispered a few sweet nothings; or she doesn't think it matters whether he stays forever. The latter case is either stupidity or child abuse, where my money would be on stupidity.
Madonna and Murphy Brown, by contrast, are child abusers.
She isn't the one who skipped out on her responsibilities,it was the father of the 8 kids that did.
the father leaving his wife(common law or by marriage)
You forgot this part of my comment.
Just because the father left after 8 years or 8 children doesn't make her someone that is abusing her children.
It was a long term relationship and the father of 8 of the children left her ,to raise them on her own and she has done the best she can under the circumstances.