"Yeah." Della ran a hand through her hair. "And all that time, I thought my uncle and brother would be raising the boys together... but... Donald was so angry at Scrooge for building the rocket in the first place, he refused to have anything more to do with him. He took the boys and left. The boys didn't even know they had an uncle until Donald ran out of babysitters."

So not only had she "abandoned" her children, but she'd split up her family.