Phillip: Your Disney articles on W6 were interesting. I’d like to offer to fill in a few of the unknowns for you:

Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Atlantis: Milo’s Return

Besides being incredibly uninteresting films and steeped in typical new-age mythology, Princess Kida (Milo’s girlfriend) is a single-parent child with a father (who eventually dies). I’d give them both negatives.

Monsters, Inc.

I, for one, would argue for a negative. Boo spends most of the film as the de facto child of Sully, and since it’s what’s on the screen that matters…

Mulan

Mulan does have 2 parents (and an ornery grandmother). Both parents survive the film, and her actions in the movie are all done to save her father and bring her family honor, through somewhat dubious means. I’d still give this one a positive.

Pokemon

The Pokemon animated storyline involves a boy who’s raised by his mother. No father in sight. He leaves mom at the ripe old age of 10 or so to go become a trainer of fighting animals. Kinda like cock-fighting, but cute. Negatives all around.

The Rescuers Down Under

The boy at the center of this movie (Cody) does not appear to have a father. One of the few good Disney sequels.

Robin Hood

Yes, there was a wedding between Marian and Robin Hood at the end.

I’d also add in a few more that weren’t on the list…

Song of the South

Seems to involve kids raised by their grandmother. Parents were absent to the best of my recollection.

Alice in Wonderland

Uh… OK. I only remember one parent. Can anyone confirm?

The Black Cauldron

I seem to remember this one involving orphans.

The Many Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh

Christopher Robin’s parents are no-shows, and Kanga and Roo are a single-parent family.

Oliver and Company

Based on Oliver Twist. All about Orphans, although someone does eventually get 2 parents.

Sword in the Stone

No parents that I’m aware of, other than a couple of fathers.

I’ve not seen either Treasure Planet or Brother Bear.