This chart is very intriguing. The relationship between parent and child is one of the most crucial and significant in anyone's life, and we all go through it, we are all either a child or a parent or both.
Looking at the chart, on the one hand, moon at the last degree would normally indicate a chart that should be not read. However, it is sitting exactly on the cusp of the 5th of children, which is the question. And in scorpio, ruled by mars which also rules the MH 10th of the mother, again the question.
In addition, it's remarkable that all the significators, both parents, the querent, and the brother, are bunched together on the 3rd cusp of brothers and sisters.
Sitting on the opposing cusp of the 9th is confusional, deceptive, spiritual and weak Neptune.
The father, ruled by the IC, 4th cusp, is Venus. The IC is in libra, the sign of peace and balance, who hates wars. He is the one, as Venus, who was first to move out of the cluster on the 3rd. Probably for the sake of peace, he has distanced himself.
Mercury, ruler of the 3rd, is the brother, and the only one in his own sign, his own house, so very strong, actually the strongest one in the chart, and he also has moved past the slower sun and mars, above and beyond the situation.
The mother is MH and 5th ruler mars, which shows how influential she is in this situation and the family. Probably too overbearing in her actions, however we find Chiron the wounded healer near her cusp. So while she in theory is the most active role player here, she herself has been suffering, has been wounded trying to heal the others, and she has been left behind by everyone else.
The querent, Leo ascendent is by nature a little self-centred, and as sun has also left the mother figure behind.
All four figures are in the sign of virgo, while very serious it is also very critical and needling at times. They tend to egg each other on with criticism, while actually looking for perfection.
And we return to the question, is the mother faking it, and find all four planets in the opposition with Neptune, some getting over it, and some approaching it, but all involved.
Virgo's natural house is the 6th, and there we find Saturn of responsibility and pluto of transformation, both in an easy trine with the four family members.
In addition, south node is there, and in easy rapport with the family.
Is the mother faking it? It would look as though not really, no more than the other members.
The easy connection with Saturn and pluto would seem to point to a way that one by one they will all come to a resolution, probably a karmic one with south node involved.
A very intriguing situation.