Just joining in (because this show is fascinating to me)!
I apologize if this has already been said (I haven't read the entire thread), but I think the teenagers' unhappiness is 100% normal, given the situation. How many teenagers would welcome the addition of a stepmother and 3 step-siblings into their families (particularly if their entrance into the family meant less time spent with their father)? While it's very kind of Kody to treat Robyn's kids like his own, I'm sure that must be difficult for some of his children to swallow, especially when he spends exactly as much time with his step-children as he does his biological children (more if you take the parent:kid ratio into account).
Additionally, Kody clearly treats Robyn differently than he does his other wives (i.e., seems more infatuated with her) - theirs is more of a "puppy love" than his other relationships. It seems likely that the kids and teenagers would have noticed this difference in treatment too. No one would want their mother to be treated less favorably. The wives signed on to struggle with these issues of jealousy - the kids didn't have a choice.
And then their parents add uprooting them to another state on short notice and a new baby to all the upheaval in their lives? Is it really surprising that some of them aren't ecstatic about their new sibling, whose birth makes it clear that their family will never, ever be what is was? (Similar to the way that a parent's remarriage makes it clear to kids that their parents aren't getting back together.)
I feel terribly sad for these kids - it's so much to grapple with all at once, and the person who is best in the position to reassure them (i.e., their father) has such limited time for them
ITA! I think most of them are acting pretty darn normal for teenagers that have had to be uprooted and really their lives completely changed (not having Dad live in their home anymore ect.) I really don't think it has much to do with who their mom is...there lives have been turned completely upside down, so I think it's pretty normal for there to be a good amount of issues. Personally, I think Mariah is more of the exception. She does have a great attitude about life in general, but so do some of Christines older girls, and I think it's pretty normal to have some kids that take all of it rougher than others.
