Did the show go out of it's way to ignore Casey and April's families?

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Originally Posted by neatoman

And it's re-enforced by the characters around her saying "You can't give up, you'll find her someday", which is still a tease. If they never had any intention to bring it up again, they wouldn't have written those lines in the first place.

It's to give hope. They weren't going to say, "Your mother is dead, April, and this one was a mutant monster, too bad."