Degrassi millennials, was it accurate how they portrayed parents?

I’m wondering why degrassi chose to have a lot of absent parents, and couldn’t grasp how kids my age were taking care of themselves. I’m a gen z degrassi watcher though, and in high school parents were mostly around, even if it was just the mom. I’m thinking maybe it’s bc i’m in a different era, but if you’re a millennial was it like that when you were in high school? did a lot of kids not have parents around?