Because the underlying principle of natural born citizenship is to guarantee sole allegiance to a single country I (for one) would not want to place a bet that SCOTUS would affirm the two parent qualification in the case of a single parent who was a US citizen at the time of birth of the child. It is not the child’s fault that he is a bastard and IMHO he should not be disqualified for the presidency. The guiding principle should be that there is no foreign influence. If there is no foreign parent, there is the likelihood of no foreign influence.
7 FAM 1118 FOUNDLINGS
(CT:CON-314; 08-21-2009)
a. Under INA 301(f) (8 U.S.C. 1401(f)) (formerly Section 301(a)(6)) INA), a
child of unknown parents is conclusively presumed to be a U.S. citizen if
found in the United States when under 5 years of age, unless foreign
birth is established before the child reaches age 21.
b. Under Section 201(f) of the Nationality Act of 1940, a child of unknown
parents, found in the United States, was presumed to have been a U.S.
citizen at birth until shown not to have been born in the United States no
matter at what age this might have been demonstrated.
c. See 7 FAM 1100 Appendix B (under development) for guidance about
evidence of citizenship of foundlings.
Here’s the thing: Bastard or not, bigamist or not, SAD made sure that Barry Soetoro met his listed birth father ... to ensure he had a relationship with him. And even though she divorced this man whom she had dreamed of living with in his home country, she promptly married a second foreign national citizen and moved herself and her son to his country instead.
If the idea of him being a bastard is to show that he has no other foreign influences, then this strategy fails immediately. The only thing that preserves Obama’s connection with the United States was through his grandparents, when SAD dumped him with them. Her inability to pick good husbands is not a compelling reason to consider Obama to be a natural-born citizen.
Also, natural-born citizenship isn’t citizenship by convenience or default — through the grandparents — while the mother goes back to living in a foreign country because she had to do something with him instead of keep raising him herself. And further, one doesn’t become a natural-born citizen because he is angry that he was abandoned by his mother.