I agree. Of course, Greg didn't really take much of a role in raising Mary Frances, so I could understand why he shouldn't have raised Meg; but if KL had been more like "Family" or "Eight is Enough," then I would've been interested to see how Mack and Karen, who were "of a certain age" and had grown children of their own, cope with raising another at a time in their lives when they probably assumed they were done with raising children. KL wasn't like "Family" or "Eight is Enough," though, and hadn't been like "Family" or "Eight is Enough" in at least a decade; so the entire scenario of Mack and Karen raising Greg and Laura's baby (with the needless wrinkle of keeping Meg from ever finding out the truth) becomes a big ball of "So what?" for me in the end. (Just as I never understood why Abby, Ben or Val always panicked at the thought of Gary knowing the twins were his, and why Gary took so damn long to figure it out. I mean, what's the big damn deal here, folks?)
Frankly, I would have had Richard return after Laura's death and fight Greg for custody of Jason and Daniel, claiming that, as the boys' biological father, he had a right to raise them on his own; with Greg, struggling after Laura's death to step up and be a father and stepfather to her kids, arguing that Richard abandoned the family for parts unknown; and Mack (perhaps serving as Greg's attorney) and Karen caught in the middle.
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