^^^ I hear you. All my life my parents have acted like my accomplishments are invalid because I don't have a man at my side. Everything else is just a second to that uncompleted achievement. In their mind a woman's proper place is second and submissive to a husband, even a cheating, abusing husband.
It's a wrong-headed opinion. Wrong for kids, wrong for families. FUNCTIONAL households are to me the gold standard. Doesn't matter how many parents head it up, or what junk they have in their pants.