Kane family

Kane family
Kane family
All My Children family
First appearance	January 16, 1970
Last appearance	September 2, 2013
Created by	Agnes Nixon
Introduced by	Bud Kloss
Duration	1970–2011, 2013

The Kane family is a fictional family on the

Pine Valley

. The family debuted when the show debuted, being one of the core families on the show alongside the Martins and the Tylers.

Story lines

The Kane family started when Eric Kane married

Hollywood movie director. At age 14, Erica was raped by her father's friend, actor Richard Fields, leading to the birth of her first child, daughter Kendall Hart

. Erica gave her baby girl up for adoption because she was too young for a child and could not raise her and give her a good life.

Mona Kane divorced her husband, Eric, for abandoning Erica and her for a lounge singer named Goldie. Mona dedicated her life to raising Erica; however, love and dedication weren't enough. Erica blamed her mother for her father's abandonment. Mona soon enough fell in love again, this time to Dr. Charles Tyler; Mona was his secretary. The only problem is that Charles was married at the time to

Phoebe Tyler. Phoebe constantly badgered all the time, which led Charles into the arms of Mona. Knowing the whole situation between Charles and Phoebe, Mona blackmailed Phoebe into divorcing Charles. After their divorce, Mona and Charles got married. Mona was always there for Erica. Erica never saw this as love, only as interference. Then Mona was diagnosed with lung cancer, which she thankfully overcame, and Erica finally saw how much her mother meant to her. Charles eventually died and struck Mona with great grief. Mona died in 1994 due to breast cancer

. With her death, Mona took many dark secrets about Erica, and the hearts of her friends, family and fans, to the grave.

A way down the road, Erica met her half-brother from her father, Eric, both Erica and Mark shared resentment for their father and the two almost had an incestuous relationship (before knowing they were related). A woman came into Erica & Mona's life claiming to be none other than Erica's sister, Silver. Silver and Erica's then husband, Kent, began a torrid affair and when Erica found out about the affair she confronted Kent and in the heat of the argument the gun Kent gave Erica went off, killing Kent and the only witness happened to be Silver, who was going to turn her sister in. Erica went on the run, but her sister, Silver, turned out to be an impostor, Connie Wilkes. In time, a mysterious woman appeared in Pine Valley named Noelle Keaton, who later on was revealed as the real Silver Kane. Silver was brain washed and sent to Pine Valley to kill Erica for Eric's inheritance by her own mother, Goldie, and psychiatrist Dr. Damon Lazarre who was Silver's secret husband. Jeremy Hunter later saved Erica and Silver, starting the relationship of Silver and Jeremy. Later on,

Natalie Marlowe

killed Silver in an accident.

Kendall Hart came to Pine Valley in early 1993 as a teenage runaway to see her idol and birth mother, Erica Kane, but kept her true identity as Erica's daughter a secret at first. Erica hired Kendall as her personal assistant at her company, Enchantment Cosmetics. Mona Kane saw the birthmark on Kendall's neck and felt Kendall was the baby girl Erica gave up for adoption to the Harts. Kendall confided in

Del Henry

and preventing her from reconciling with Dimitri), Anton left her. However, when Anton learned he was Dimitri's son, he dragged Kendall to get married in December 1994 as revenge against their respective parents. The marriage was annulled several months later after Anton discovered Kendall was plotting with Corvina against the Maricks to inherit Wildwind. In May 1995, Kendall fell in love with Del. When Kendall got news that her adoptive father had died and her adoptive mother, Alice, was too sick to take care of herself, Kendall made plans with Del to return to Florida in July 1995. Before she leaves, Kendall and Erica made amends and Erica forgives her for the harm she has caused.

In 1994,

Phoebe Tyler

mourned Mona, Phoebe shared a great moment with Erica, when Phoebe said that she would loved the chance to reconcile with Mona and how lucky Erica was to have a mother like Mona. Phoebe also stated that Mona raised a wonderful daughter, this pleased Erica a lot, knowing she finally got the respect of her idol.

Kendall returned to Pine Valley in 2002. She quickly fell in love with

Spike Lavery. In December 2006 a murder spree was upon the women of Fusion Cosmetics

and the killer was someone from Zach's past, making Kendall and Zach targets.

Bianca was born on February 8, 1988, to Erica Kane and

Maria Grey, Travis and Barbara came to Pine Valley to take Bianca home, and when Travis told them that Erica would never see Bianca again, Bianca fainted and was rushed to the hospital. Bianca was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa and by early 1998 her condition became very serious which made Bianca to be fed by a tube. Bianca agreed to get help and moved to New England

to a rehabilitation center.

Bianca came back to Pine Valley in 2000 after leaving in 1998. During which she came out as a lesbian, even with Erica's resentment. Bianca soon fell in love with

Zarf

and felt somehow attracted to him. Zarf finally revealed the truth to Bianca first telling her that all his life he wanted to be a girl, play with dolls, where dresses, do girl things but felt trapped in a man's body. Zarf started calling himself Zoe and has begun his transition towards womanhood. Bianca didn't accept Zarf at first, but the two are now close mates.

Family tree

Eric Kane (deceased)
- m.
  Mona Kane
  [divorced] (deceased 1994)
  c. Erica Kane
  r.
  Richard Fields
  (deceased 1994)
  c. Kendall Hart (Born 1970 change to 1976){given up for adoption}
  m. Anton Lang [divorced; 1995]
  
  m. Zach Slater [divorced; first time; 2005-2006] (deceased 2010)
  
  i. Ryan Lavery
  c.
  Spike Lavery
  (born 2006)
  
  m. Zach Slater [divorced; second time; 2006-2009] (deceased 2010)
  c.
  Ian Slater
  (born 2007)
  
  m. Zach Slater [dissolved; third time; 2009-2010] (decease 2010)
  
  m.
  Jeffrey "Jeff" Martin
  [divorced; 1971-1974]
  c. Joshua "Josh" Madden (born 1973 change to 1980) {originally thought to be aborted}
  
  m. Philip "Phil" Brent [divorced; 1975] (deceased 1981)
  c. Unnamed child (deceased 1975)
  
  m.
  Thomas "Tom" Cudahy
  [divorced; 1978-1981]
  
  m. Adam Chandler Sr. [divorced; first time; 1984-1993]
  
  m.
  Travis Montgomery
  [invalid; first time; 1987-1989]
  c. Bianca Montgomery (born 1988 change to 1984)
  r. Michael Cambias (deceased 2003)
  c. Miranda Montgomery (born 2004 to 1997)
  
  i. Zach Slater (deceased 2010)
  c.
  Gabrielle Montgomery
  (born 2008 change to 2001)
  
  m.
  Reese Williams
  [divorced; 2009-2011]
  
  m.
  Travis Montgomery
  [invalid; 1989-1990]
  
  m. Adam Chandler Sr. [divorced; second time; 1993]
  
  m. Dimitri Marick [divorced; first time; 1993-1994]
  
  m. Dimitri Marick [divorced; second time; 1994-1996]
  c. Unnamed child (deceased 1996)
  
  m.
  Jackson Montgomery
  [divorced; 2005-2007]
- a. Maureen Dalton
  - c. Mark Dalton
    - a. Elizabeth Carslye
      - c. Julie Rand Chandler {adopted by Ellen Shepherd & Ross Chandler}
        m. Nico Kelly [divorced; 1988-1989]
    - m. Ellen Shepherd [divorced; first time; 1982-1983]
    - m. Ellen Shepherd [married; second time; 1988]
- a. Goldie Kane (deceased)
  - c. Silver Kane (deceased)
    - m. Damon Lazarre [dissolved] (deceased)

Story lines

Family tree

References