Children should be raised by a mother and a father.
Really? Because I had a father and a mother until I was orphaned at 8. Wanna know how my "fathers" treated me?
My biological father was pressured by his family after he divorced my mother to have her new husband adopt me. Why? He is from a very wealthy family and they didn't want me to have any claims to their fortune. He paid off her new husband 25,000 to make it happen.
Her next husband was a dude named Jack, and apparently he had a bit of PTSD, because everytime he got in a bad mood, I got thrown down cement stairs.
The last husband she had before she died was named Bob. He was the worst of all, because not only did he beat me senseless at least once a week, he also sexually abused my sister and on occasion did it in front of me.
The parents of the foster families that followed weren't much better. Why? Because most of the time, one parent was happy I was there, but one parent feltput upon because I was there. Not exactly happy childhood conditions, even though I had a male and a female that were parent figures.
The only place I ever felt wanted (besides my mother), was with my Grandparents, which is why I went to live with them my last year of high school.
No, having parents isn't always an ideal situation.