How is it to have two mothers?

While his mother Flora had a bun in the oven, she tried to committ a suicide. When William Chaney found out that she was pregnant, he beat hear ans insisted on having an abortion.
After it, she attempted to kill herself within two days. Firstly, she overdosed laudanum. When she failde, Flora tried to shoot herself in the head, but it was thwarted with a gan malfunction.
London`s foster mother was a former slave named Virginia. After his birth, she took the infant Jack London in because Flora passed over her responsibility to bring up and educate her son. Why? She was too sick to care about Jack. Later he was taken back by Flora... Virginia remained as a significant maternal figure throughout his life.