Of course the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents and when age finally stirs their curiosity there is no parent left to tell them.
As long as any adult thinks that he like the parents and teachers of old can become introspective invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him he is lost.
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.