Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170709002747/@comment-14909251-20170716231407

SpiritedDreaming wrote: I think DA meant the large age gap between the kids...but the family portrait indicates that there's only a few years between them really. 4-5 between Weiss and Winter, and maybe 3-4 between Weiss and Whitley. That's a 7-9 year age gap between Winter and Whitley, which isn't overall that big when you have another child in the middle. It's spaced out, but that just means they finished potty training/teaching the previous one to walk and talk before they had the next.

Large age gaps are generally considered large if they occur between the children that were born next to each other like Weiss and Whitley.

For all we know Willow and Jacques just had trouble conceiving/carrying children to term. It happens. I don't think that's an accurate assessment. Granted, it can be hard to tell, but based off their positions in the story itself and how they appear in the painting, I would argue they all have about six years between each of them. At the time of Volume 3, Winter has clearly been in the miltary for many years. She has been around adult life enough to develop a rivalry with Qrow and she looks more the age Weiss is in that painting. Whitley looks to be a child in that portrait, while Weiss seems more like Whitley's current age and the way Whitley talks makes me think he is not yet a teen.