Doesn't Make Sense

They showed an episode where the parents get married- everyone is about 1 year younger, maybe 2 tops. So, it is a recent hook up, essentially.

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It's stated in the pilot that they've being living together for over 11 months. And Avery was in the 6th grade and it was prior to Christmas. There's a good chance that the second half of season 2 was when she was in 7th grade because she's in 8th grade at the start of season 2. So from that assumption its closer to 3 years right now. So their probably comfortable with their step-parents enough to call them Mom/Dad. It also may be a hint to the absentee bio parents being deadbeat/unfit parents. Bennett is probably a better dad to Avery than her real father, which isn't hard to believe considering how weird she started out and parents in particular fathers have a huge effect on girls.

And Ellen mentioned that Avery has always been her brave little soldier which hints that it's probably just been them two for many years or that Avery barely knows her dad. Similar situation with Chloe but towards Ellen and Tyler probably calls Ellen mom either because he was told to or to make her happy.

On the Brady Bunch, the absentee parents were never ever mentioned once and that definitely was a quick hookup. With this show being heartfelt at times, I think it'll have a higher chance of addressing. It'll probably get sparked by Stan questioning where he comes from or who they come from.

I wouldn't be surprised if Tyler has a different mom from Chloe. However, I also wouldn't be surprised if it never gets brought up.

Also back on the time frame issue. Since Stan is retelling the episodes via blog, I wouldn't be surprised if some episodes are either out of order, not the day her blogs about it or spaced out with varied amounts of time between them. Like a day or two for some, and months for others.
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Nothing wrong with the family being blended. There are a TON of blended families in my neighborhood. This is a modern show meant for those kids to relate to.

"I ate a pear. I ate three pairs." - Lizzie Borden

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Is there even a reason for this to be a "blended family" other than Hollywood is trying to destroy the institution of marriage? How many Disney/Nick shows have traditional families vs. blended ones or non-existent parents? For that matter, very few shows on tv. in general have a nuclear family.

There is nothing wrong with a blended family. However, it is not optimal. It is best for the children (statistically, don't be giving me antidotes and claim it proves my statement wrong) if their biological parents are married to each other.

As I brought up previously, Hollywood seems to default to the blend/broken family more often than opting for a traditional one.

In the bad old days for thousands of years blended families were very common and traditional.

For example, a Johannes Jauch had two or more children and then died in the great Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelpha in 1793. His widow, my great great great great grandmother Eva Lowman Jauch, married my great great great great grandfather Henry Hurst (born 1771) in 1800 and had several children including Ann Frances Veronica Hurst who was born in 1801.

Henry Hurst and his family moved to Lancaster County, PA where Eva eventually died. Henry Hurst remarried a woman who was a niece of my great great great grandfather, Jacob Demuth (born 1779), in 1822 and they had children, including Elam D. Hurst and a daughter born when Henry Hurst was about 61 and thus in 1842.

A few days later in 1822 Jacob Demuth married Ann Frances Veronica Hurst (1801 - 1868), who was the half sister of the Jauch children born in the 1780s and 1790s and the Hurst children born in the 1820s and 1830s. They had nine children including my great great grandfather Henry Cornelius Demuth (1830 -1906). Thus Jacob Demuth's third wife Ann Frances Veronica Hurst was the step daughter of Jacob's niece.

Jacob Demuth's first wife was a daughter of Johannes Eberman, whose second wife was a sister of Jacob Demuth, thus making Jacob's first wife his sister's stepdaughter.

Johannes Eberman had several children by his first and second wives. A son by his first wife married three times and had children by all three wives. This son's first two wives were sisters and Demuth descendants and ancestors of more Demuth descendants.

Jacob Demuth had one son by his first wife (an Eberman and a stepdaughter of his sister, remember), and then remarried to a woman whose ancestry is somewhat mysterious. Taking the information about her ancestry at face value makes her the illegitimate daughter of Jacob's brother and only fourteen years younger than that brother. Jacob and his second wife had ten children.

These examples from my genealogy show how common and traditional blended marriages were for countless thousands of disease-ridden years, until a brief period of a few generations after the death of spouses became rare and before divorce became common.

Everyone is descended from many, many persons who were parents and/or children in blended families.

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