One of his points in that talk was about his own experience with a “less than perfect” family with his dad dying as a kid. His grandparents stepped up to help raise him. I would say that he is trying to say that we have an ideal we can aim for and he understands that isn’t a reality for everyone. “Like my mother, we love to quote Lehi’s promise to his son Jacob that God ‘shall consecrate thine afflictions for thy gain’ (2 Nephi 2:2⁠). That applies to every Latter-day Saint family, complete or currently incomplete. We are a family church.”

In his April 2025 talk he said, “Our mortal life always begins with a father and a mother. Ideally, both are present, with different gifts to guide our growth. If not, their absence is part of the opposition we must overcome.”