I think all soaps do this. They jump from being babies to being toddlers, to being "troubles teens" to being adults having affairs.
Life's just not interesting enough in the intervening years.
I gave up on soaps several years ago when Marlena became possessed by a demon on "Days of Our Lives". I decided the shows had hit a new low at that point, and it would be all downhill from there. From what I hear, I wasn't wrong. <img src="/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />