[Alf]

To become a well balanced person you need yin and yang. I believe the best way to achieve this is, for a boy the father dishes out the discipline (when called for) and the mother dishes out the love, and for a girl the mother dishes out the discipline and the father the love.

And if you're a single parent child, then you're fooked. I was more or less a single parent child from the age of 12, as my father no longer lived with us, and I missed out on the discipline part from that age onwards, but thankfully I had it for the first 12 years of my life, which was just enough to learn me right from wrong, although I am a bit fooked.