Getting rid of your own child is selfish.
Walter's son Jimmy has been struggling at school and also fighting other kids and generally misbehaving.
Walter wants to do something drastic to alter the course of Jimmy's life.
Walter takes Jimmy to a military academy for young boys to learn discipline and order.
Walter takes Jimmy to the adoption agency and puts him up for adoption.
Jimmy is given direction and purpose in life as well as having discipline instilled in him.
Jimmy is traumatized from being abandoned by his father and scared of his future.