User blog comment:Brianbreed/Why Do I Burn Kaiden?/@comment-4618888-20120106003019

"He never talks about his family in-game" Actually, he does say something about his family--he says his father was proud of him when he got it together and enlisted at age 22, and that his parents are in Vancouver. But he says it only to female Shepard after Eden Prime, so it's not surprising he gets left behind a lot--80% of players use male Shepard.

I've saved Kaidan every time but I don't have any strongly held feelings about having done so, other than I like his character better than Ashley.