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I think Emma is justified in being mad, but she held her parents to stadards that they did not agree upon. Snow and Charming (as far as I remember) didn't act like they were morally pure and goody-goodies.

The whole Lily fiasco  I just consider poor writing because they literally did nothing and it costed them everything. They made a mistake of darkness dumping another child, but they aren't guilty of the rest that was out of their control. They tried to save Lily from being taken in the portal before Cruella and Ursula jumped in front of them. They were wrong but they can't be blamed for things that weren't their doing.

Snow killed Cora in a terrible way, I'll admit. I'm not excusing it but at that moment, Snow had two options, use Regina to do an evil thing or die.I cn't blame her for not dying. Regina was in there and was likely going to either kill Snow or stop her. If Snow was stopped, then Cora would have won and kill her. So, Snow did the smart thing with evil motivations.

Emma set herself up for being angry because they always presented themselves as trying to do the right thing, not as paragons of goodness as she seemed to hold them up to. The same goes for Lily to think that Mal was just totally an evil, scary dragon witch. They both seem to have these idealized versions of who their parents are when they are not.