In the little Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. family, May and Coulson are definitely the parents, and their kids can be pretty troublesome.
There’s certainly no denying that May/Coulson is different from Fitzsimmons in some key ways, as Ming-Na Wen said.
Whether they’re developing superpowers, being whisked through a monolith to another planet, or engineering killer robots, the kids keep May and Coulson plenty busy.
If anything upsets the May/Coulson dynamic, the whole family unit could be shaken up.