I don't think you can blame a group of kids for their relationships with their caretakers. Whatever a thirteen year old might do, it's a guardian's responsibility to negotiate the difficulties. There were very few direct guardian relationships on our side, but the one we had was successful in no small part because Jane's Dad was able to bridge the gap with his teen daughter.

[Dirk has stiffened an improbable fraction, but not after what Dave said about guardians. It was the part that came first.

Somehow, that hurt]