Please see my Post No. 167.
Let me add in elaboration of the referenced post that the word “parents” as used by the Court in Minor and repeated in Wong Kim Ark, is PLURAL.
Any grammarians out there who think the word “parents” actually means “parent”?
Can 'parents' not also refer to multiple persons who do not share offspring? Such as 'his father' and 'her father' and 'my mother' and 'your mother' and any collection of persons that have, but do not share, offspring? The 'two parents argument' is fallacious in any case, as women acquired the citizenship of the husband at marriage and referencing the citizenship of the mother would be pointlessly redundant. The mother's citizenship, which would virtually never have differed from the father's, would not be relevant to the discussion when patriarchal heredity of citizenship was the mechanism involved. Women acquired naturalization through their husbands (or, prior to marriage, by their fathers) as well or at the same time anyway. More or less, the only way to get citizenship through the mother, at that time, was if the child were illegitimate and unrecognized by his father. References to the citizenship of women in that time were pretty much incidental.