If you just look at the pathetic soap opera the Batman books have degenerated into in the last six or seven years you might even be right. I´ve been reading Batman for over 30 years now, and to me, the stories and, above all, the character never got old. They used to be about a man fighting crime and injustice, and provided the reader with a look at society on one hand and the sometimes strange and tragic fates of individuals, costumed and civilian, on the other. You´d think a changing world around us, new conflicts, social issues, a new self-awareness, hell, even new types of crime! would inspire writers to look at the world through a human hero´s eyes. But obviously nobody can be arsed with this kind of reflexion of reality anymore, so we get more inbred navel-gazing in one book and fairy-tale randomness in the other.
On another note, where does all this "my parents are dead" nonsense come from? It´s not as if the storylines even addressed this issue, it´s not as if you could see Batman wailing about it anywhere. Seems to me more the kind of stereotype and annoying oh-so-funny remark typical for the internet.