I’ve seen bits and pieces of Jon and Kate Plus Eight, and Jon always struck me as hen-pecked.
Jon's a slacker. He may as well have been Kate's 9th kid. No wonder she had to tell him what to do.
He was a lot of the time, but then again, he acted like one of the kids a lot of the time as well. I remember one episode where he was supposed to be watching the kids as they rode their bikes/skated on the street in front of their house—he took off on his rollerblades and left most of them behind alone!! Kate came out of the house and freaked out, rightly so. Not that she’s perfect, but neither was he by any means.