Mm, true; fairy tales tend to take a "soft focus" approach to stuff like that, where "And the Evil Witch approached the Good King and Queen and bent to one knee, saying, 'I have wronged your daughter and wish to make recompense,' but the King and Queen were good and forgave the Witch, for they knew she could no more harm them than the child she had grown to love like a mother, and so they all lived happily ever after."

Which kind of fits, except for the part that someone below this brought up, where Gothel clearly values Rapunzel as an object, a thing no more animate and with no more independence of thought than the flower, rather than as a person, never mind as her child.