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From an audience perspective yeah that would be a really stupid cop out but at least from a character perspective, they wouldn't be horrible parents.
 
Also, other shows did have dead parents with a target demo similar to MLP (at least in terms of age) arguably anything with Batman in it (demo age wise anyway), Hey Arnold up until the last episode, Rugrats had an entire mothers day episode dedicated to Chuckie's mother being dead. That is just some off the top of my head likely there are far more.
 
So honestly it shouldn't be that surprising.

"@Pagan":/1366756#comment_5867401
From an audience perspective yeah that would be a really stupid cop out but at least from a character perspective, they wouldn't be horrible parents. Also, other shows did have dead parents with a target demo similar to MLP (at least in terms of age) arguably anything with Batman in it (demo age wise anyway), Hey Arnold up until the last episode, Rugrats had an entire mothers day episode dedicated to Chuckie's mother being dead. That is just some off the top of my head likely there are far more.