David was forced into pretending to be a single father to Cory and Jonathan; their pretend mother dead a few years back. His story had been the easiest to pull off since the records of the deceased rarely included notes of their entire families.
Instead, they held data on the marital status and number of children.
Pulling out an ID number for three people was much simpler when they were faking them from an actual person's records.
Of course, this made David grumble since he hated the idea of pretending to be a caring father to two boys he already had trouble liking. To be fair, David had difficulty liking everyone, so Cory and Jonathan didn't feel offended by his complaints.