Jean really enjoy being the cool uncle for the Schneider children and he was glad that his own son, Terry, could grow with them. Since he was afraid of marriage and not wanting to have children himself, this is the best arrangement for him.
He remembered the time when he finally became Terry's legal guardian and asked the boy to call him father. Though this was his biological child, Terry was also easy to handle because Terry was already 15 years old at the time, so he was not at all troublesome.
Jean felt very blessed, because he did not have to face the stress and chaos of having a child that had to be raised from a baby, and yet he still had these extraordinary children in his life. He knew he was very lucky.
Yep, come to think of it... the people in this story have complicated relationship and they are all tangled with one another and now become one big happy family.