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I'd say unconditional love is a beautiful illusion, which can be initiated, maintained and nurtured from whatever beginning until death if, and only if, one or both parties do nothing to screw it/each other over.
One child kills another, for example... but that's unreasonably extreme. Many relationships between parent and child go off the rails - some even become patholigical hatred - for somewhat petty reasons.
So, yes, the intense love that people describe as unconditional exists, but, no, nothing in this life is unconditional.
IMO
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
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