Quote Originally Posted by Kraco
Aoi still thinks like mages do, assuming the most talented of the offspring will carry on the family's inheritance, out of pride, responsibility, and duty. In fact it was conflicted of her to blame Kariya at that point because giving Sakura to Matou assured Sakura could become a mage as wel
I wouldn't go that far.

I'd say Aoi accepts the ways of mages, rather than thinks or takes pride in their ways. Tokiomi is the one who fully backs the "give Sakura a second life" ideology and might have even saw Zouken's request as an opportunity to save a dying lineage and let a young mage fulfil her potential. Aoi really doesn't care for that and would have rathered that Sakura live a sheltered life with the family instead, but she accepts her (and Sakura's) fate since she's the wife of a mage.

Aoi would never have seen the giving of Sakura to the Matous as a good move - for her or Sakura.