Yep, and when the writers are so eager to SORAS kids, it affects their parents a lot, making some of the actors not very happy. Belle & Shawn have a daughter, Claire who is about 20. Means they have to be around 40. And what does that do to their parents? Marlena was around 25 or so arriving in Salem, met, married Don Craig, had a baby who died, later meeting, dating and finally marrying Roman, having twins who are now 40ish, and then eventually it was John. And they had Belle. Marlena should be close to 80 already.....but isn't, on the show. Yep, the writers really should think ahead when aging kids.