He wasn't happy with Regina! He's for once happy when he was with Emma. Until season 2 came out I thought Regina didn't even like him and I wanted to badly for Henry to get away from her. I don't think she doesn't like him anymore, in fact I think she loves him, but I still don't want him to be with her. I'm so happy he's with Emma now. I'm also happy that he's leaving Storybrooke with Emma, I was so scared that Regina or Cora might kidnap him. Also I'm meaning this as if he could only live with one of them.

I think he should associate with both.

I think that they should move in together and raise him together

Yes! :D

His mother, of course.

Emma is his mother

I think that they both should raise him. Both have equal responsibility. Live with Emma but still be able to spend some nights with Regina.

Katara, Emma is NOT his mother. She is the woman who carried and gave birth to him. There is a difference. Regina raised him and cared for him. She wanted him; Emma didn't. Regina is his mother.
Henry belongs with his mother, the person who has always wanted him and loved him, not some stranger who gives him away and takes him back whenever she feels like it.

FlightofFantasy you're wrong. Emma was his mother, she gave him up because she was doing what was best for him. Mother's do those kinds of things for their child, just like how Snow White and Charming gave her up for her best chance.

the one that makes him happy ->

It is Henry's choice, but he musn't forget who raised him last 10 years...

I think Henry already made his choice..

@KataraLover- Emma giving birth to Henry does not make her his mother. Regina raised him and loves him. Yes, Regina does some evil things that make Henry unhappy with her, but it doesn't change the fact that she is his mom. She adopted him as a baby and has been the only mother he's known for most of his life.
An adopted parent is just as much a parent as any birth parent.

@FlightofFantasy I agree with except for the whole "want" thing. Putting up a child for adoption is rarely a matter of "want" but a decision a parent makes for the best of their child whether they actually "want" to do that or not. It's about sacrifice.
It still doesn't change the fact that Regina is Henry's mother though. Emma made the decision, whether she would rather have been able to keep him or not, to put him up for adoption, therefor giving up her right to be called his mom.
Regina, no matter what decisions she makes in life, good or bad, is Henry's mother. Being the "evil queen" does not mean that she can't be a mother, as well.

@Rumbellefan11: Well said! Tottally agree with you :)))

@Rumbellefan11 Oh so I suppose that since Snow White and Charming didn't raise Emma they're not her parents either. She was a true parent from the very beginning because she did the right thing. She knew that he wouldn't have a good life with her so she wanted to give him his best chance, something she never had. Only a true parents would do something so selfless like that. She didn't get rid of him because she didn't want him, it was because she loved him and wanted to give him his best chance. Regina may have raised him but she did a horrible job at it. He was unhappy, she make him unhappy because she was controlling, manipulative, too hard on him, ignored him because of power, and made him think she didn't love him. Regina is no more his mother than Emma is, in fact Emma is more his mother than she is. Last time I check she didn't go to find him for her own selfish reasons, he ran away and went to find her. Regina's a bad parent and maybe you better examine this better. In fact with the way Regina acts in the first season I wanted to punch her and say "HE'S NOT YOUR SON, HE'S EMMA'S". He wants to be with Emma because he's actually for once happy, his teacher was even aware of how miserable he was with Regina.

i totally agree wiv u KataraLover. At the end of the day Regina only wants Henry because she has lost everything else, when the curse was still in play Regina wasnt all tht bothered about Henry she only wanted to keep him to piss Emma off. All said and done it should be Henry's choice and it is quite clear tht he has already chosen Emma, which i believe is 100% the right choice.

I think Regina still loved Henry but she's just a really bad mother

I think both are good moms for him. And both are his parents, like a divorced couple. Both love him and played some role in raising him. Emma just raised him later. And just like a divorced couple, the child usually picks a favorite. Therefore, I believe both are his parents, weather either character likes it or not.

And Regina did not only want him simply because she had nothing left. She was fighting for him long before the curse was broken.

Exactly, although I don't think Regina is a good mom.

She tries though. It's kind of tough to be a good mom, when your own sucked at parenting!

I know so it's not entirely her fault

With both his Mother Regina and Emma. He wasn't happy with Regina at the age of 10 that doesn't account for the years before when he didn't think of her as "The Evil Queen". To lump his whole life with Regina as unhappy is unfair and untrue. She loves Henry and he is the reason she is trying to be good again.

@KataraLover- The situation between Emma and her parents is different because she was in the foster system as opposed to being adopted and raised by a parent/parents. She has nobody else.
Giving him up for adoption was a good parenting move on Emma's part, but once she did and Regina adopted him Regina became his mother. Not Emma. I don't see Regina as that bad of a mother. She was far from perfect, but compared to a lot of parents I see these days she's great. Sadly, she didn't have the best examples for how a parent should be when she was raised, but considering that CORA is her mother I think she is doing a much better job. I also agree with blue-eyes. I'm hoping we will eventually get to see some back story of Regina and Henry before he learned the truth about the curse.

Also, a "bad parent" doesn't make someone less of a parent. If Regina had been his birth mother and only mother would have said she's not really his parent because of the choices she's made and things she's done? Would you say that Cora isn't really Regina's mother?

I think it's only fair to agree that we don't know if Henry was happy or not with gina in his early childhood. we'll just have to wait and see.

for now all we know is that when we met him he was terribly unhappy, he was seeing a psychologist (whom was forced by his adoptive mother to apply wrong methods that clearly made his condition worse), that he practically abandoned his home, ran away to find his true mother.

Emma may be his birth mother, but Regina raised him up for 10 years, Plus Regina may be the evil queen, but she knows a lot more about Henry and parenting than Emma does.

Can't answer it. In every situation, there is solution.

I voted for Emma! She is his mother, no matter what happened before, she is; and most of all, during the last season she really tried to be better for him and she made him happy, unlike Regina at that time. Regina's always loved Henry, but she was so obsessed with her own greed that she totally forgot to really take care of him, of his happiness. But Emma did, so he has to stay with her.
I don't despise Regina at all though. Tbh I can't help myself being sad for her because now she tries to get better for him. And she made a lot of mistakes, I understand why Henry and her are not that close, but still, she raised him for 10 years. I think, even though Henry must be with Emma, Regina deserves more respect and attention from him just for that, and I can't stand the way he pushes her away just because he found his 'real' family again..
Anyway, I think the best way for all of them to be happy is that Regina and Emma make peace with each other for real, so they can provide for Henry some well-balanced life. He can't keep living being torn between the two of them.. BUT it would be way too easy if that happened now, so I guess Henry's gonna deal with his mothers'conflicts for a long time..

Ok... Although everyone says Henry is better with Emma, since she's his ~mother. But Regina knows him better, hell, he has lived with her for almost all of his life. And now Emma just came out of the blue and took Henry from her. Very fair~~ Say that's legal 'cause again, Emma's Henry's mother. But still... It's logical that Regina acts like that to pull Henry back. I don't expect her to do civilized things like the Charming family. She was raised in a NO GOOD family, evil mom, coward dad, dead true love and Rumpelstiltskin -_-. Seriously, he put bad effects on the girl -_- She can't be good even if she want too considering her circumstances. So screw it if Henry's with Emma, I think Regina will raise her son just as good <3

^ This right here.

I care about Henry's feelings more. I'm not so obsessed with a character to say she deserves everything. that she deserves to have another human being. though that other's person's options are clearly different.
but that's just me. I think you girls are like "screw Henry and his feelings. All I want is gina to have her way".

I think you girls are like "screw Henry and his feelings. All I want is gina to have her way".

It's unclear to me which one of use you are referring to, so I will say, in my own defense; Clearly in my first statement I said he should be with both of them, not just Gina and not just Emma. Like a child of a divorced couple. How is that saying screw Henry's feelings? How is that saying Gina deserves another human being? That is taking all of their feelings into account. What I said is something more like a court ruling in a divorce trial. I have friends with devoiced parents so I can back that. And besides, throughout a good portion of this season (up until Cora framed her) Henry seemed happy to be around Gina. This can be said based on how he would hug her and smile at her and say he was happy with her redemption. So I did not say anything like 'screw Henry's feelings. In a situation like theirs', in a situation in which compromise must be made, no one is going to be entirely happy.

@Jean_FanOfAll: "So screw it if Henry's with Emma, I think Regina will raise her son just as good <3"

@zanhar1: " ^ This right here."


this is how I understand the comments you girls posted. I might be wrong, you might have meant something else. But that is how I read it. That is the feeling I get from it.

and that's all. since we've all agreed debating leads.. well... nowhere. and I'm most definitely not interested in having a fight.

Oh, you were talking about that post. Okay.

Well; I can't speak for the others, but that's not what I meant. I can see how you'd interpret it that way, but that's not what I meant.

Neither am I, I never intended on having a fight. I just wanted to point out that I did take Henry's feelings into account so I don't sound like a heartless beeotch.

Whoah! No! I'm not intending to have a fight at all! I'm just a little hot-headed.
And I seriously... don't know what to say. I do meant it when I posted those things, my point of view about it, but I did consider Henry's feelings in my opinion, seeing Regina's change in this season, I thought Regina deserves some quality time with him. But I guess everybody has a different view on this. Sorry for making you misunderstood it.

He should be with his Mom; end of discussion as far as I'm concerned.

And I don't know if I should be offended or not by a few of these comments. How would you explain this aspect of the show to an adopted child? Seriously, would you say Emma is Henry's *real* mom and that he belongs only with her? How do you think that adopted kid will feel when they think about their own adoption?

I'm just going to stop there - I'm getting to worked up!

^^it does sound how I read it. but..
I don't think Henry hates gina, even more now that he sees some small changes in her. However I did not see him yet asking Emma or the Charmings to bring him to gina. Not even as in visiting.

but as I've said it's Henry's choice. And he has made his choice ->
I respect that.

Wasn't it his idea to invite her to dinner? Maybe I remember wrong.

Well, yes. that's what I've said. He sees small changes in her, he does not hate her - proven by the fact he invited her to the dinner. BUT he did not ask to go to his adoptive mother's place, to move in with her again. not even in as staying a few days or so. He's clearly happy with his mom and his grandparents.

That's true. But a lot of that is due to Cora's frame job.

Anyhow I think we reached a peaceful conclusion on this one; that Henry doesn't totally hate Regina and that what Henry wants is probably what's best, so long as each parent so to speak is still in his life somehow.

Both

I wish there was a both option