In colonial times, it was common to farm one's children out to other relatives once they reached puberty. It meant that all of the anti-parent rebellion had to be carried out under someone elses roof, and all those buttons one suceeded in learning in youth, had to be abandoned for adulthood.
I think it is where the phrase"Talking like an uncle" came from.
i really have no room to complain with these 3, if truth be told. the biggest complaint i have is their failure to help around the house by volunteering to just do things, but that is entirely our fault for not requiring more of them, i have come to realize. xsteen does the least of the group and that is my doing.