Talk:Starlight Glimmer/@comment-37417690-20190108174537/@comment-29981995-20190110033507

The real world answer is that the writers thought packing both of Starlight's parents and both of Sunburst's parents into the same episode would be too much, so they only had one of each. Hopefully we'll get Starlight's mom and Sunburst's dad next season. As for right now, we don't know why they weren't around in the Parent Map from the characters' perspective. Though knowing some fans there's doubtless already been speculation as to divorce or death.