Can you love someone so much you'd lie?

According to Jodi Picoult you can.

Handle with Care.

It was sort of typical Jodi Picoult story, admirably she always managed to put analogies and metaphors in completely different topic, this time she used cooking. Rather, desert cooking.

The recipes inside though looked too hard for me to try, but it's worth to keep for future references :P. Note to self: One day when I'm good enough I will try at least one of the recipes there.

In the book, the mother loved the child so much, that she'd will to stand up in court and say she wished the child has never been born. All, basically for money, but she said it wasn't for money.. what confusing story.
Even after finishing the story, even after the ending, I still wonder why she'd do that, and about the jury's final verdict. I still don't agree, because I think they'd be fine without the court case anyway.
It was too weak of a reason I had thought, "to secure her future" , "to give her a better future"

But what is the definition of a better future? Is it one where you can comfortably live.. or one where you look back and never a moment doubt that you had been loved?

Well the child did understand the mom in the end *spoiler alert.. too late.. HAHA*

And now, though it is not a good analogy, I am trying to learn.. how to love someone so much I'd lie for their future. Yet at the same time, silently wishing one day they'd understand.. Rather like Itachi, huh? :))