"my chair broke"

[Mister Obvious]

There are some people out there who are mentally retarded.

There are people who are emotionally retarded.

And then there are people who have retarded natural inclinations...

There's a healthy motherly inclination...

And there's an unhealthy motherly inclination.

What's wrong with her is a mix of a lot of things, but a retarded motherly instinct is one of them.