Devero is a man who hails from a world where community allegiance is valued higher than any individual bond or responsibility. He's a man who understands that duty is supposed to come before any personal bond. The citizen sacrifices for the community, not the other way around.

Devero is also a man from the world where children are so precious a resource that they all grow up as wards of the government. To care for children is considered one of the highest aspirations a person can have. And he's a man who's yearned for family, so desperately that he put his well-being into the hands of a woman who saw him as a compliant commodity.

To Devero, this seems simple. Maybe it shouldn't, but it does. "You saved his life. What else could you do? He's your son."