Ray's "kids"
I say this from a casual viewer who would occasionally watch an episode if it was on and nothing else was. I always noticed that his children were either toddlers or young kids, but never teenagers. Was the show's storyline based on a 3 - 4 year time span and not the 11 year run it actually covered? I say this because I've seen episodes dated to 2004 and 1996 and at both ends the children never looked a day over 8 years old.
Maybe I'm wrong?