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Despite Jake's neurotic behavior, there have been periods where he has true insight into the lives of his children. During "Boxing Daria," he explains to Daria that while she was a difficult child to deal with due to her reclusive and jaded behavior, he and Helen understood and accepted that someone as bright as she was not going to be like everyone else. This, of course, flies in the face of their many attempts (primarily Helen's) to get Daria to be like everyone else. In the flashbacks in that episode, notably, he identifies the young Daria "doesn't ''want'' to fit in".
 
It's sometimes assumed that he's closer to Daria than Quinn (note he has [[kiddo|a pet name]] for her but not Quinn), and from time to time has taken her side or shown he wants to. In "[[Arts 'nN' Crass]]", he accidentally supports Daria against Helen, backing her artwork. In "[[Of Human Bonding]]", he desperately ''wants'' to bond properly with Daria and reach out, and that he's worried she always looks so lonely, but proves incapable of pulling it off; earlier in the episode, however, he was ''scared'' of knowing about her. In "[[Aunt Nauseum]]" and other episodes, it's Daria he turns to out of the girls if he needs help. The two have been shown sitting at the table together reading and not talking, which Daria seems happy with.
 
Two notable moments for Jake and his parenting were:
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