Dont mean to generalize, but I believe so.
that makes sense. I dont think it matters if you have just a mom, just a pops, mom and pops or no mom and pops at all. Its all about your support system.
As a social species we need key relationships and interactions at particular times in our lives. As a child, if we are hurt and scared, we dont need a person to tell us to not cry or to not be scared, but that everything is or will be ok. We need peers who experience the same things we do at the same time, like your best homie growin up.
The parent to child relationship is important particularly around the time a child starts to inquire, who am i? roughly age 13 and older its what Erik Erikson calls 'identity vs role confusion' or 'fidelity'. In the thread about the kid whose parents beat him to death and they whooped him and talked about religion I talked about how the children explores their-self, where they fit in the world, how the interact with the world and start to push boundaries. In that thread I stated how if a kid doesnt rebel then there is a problem.
During these years kids are entering middle school, and thats where a lot start to get all emotional and start to get those thoughts about suicide and popularity and such.
If a child feels that the world will exist just find without them or that they have little impact its going to affect them in a negative way. If they have a strong support system, with peers (friends) and guardians (not even parents but just someone who looks over them and provides the care and support) they will get along just fine.
damn this turned out longer than I thought.