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Polyamory Isn’t Good for Children: My Story
The Public Discourse ^ | May 13, 2015 | James Lopez

Posted on 05/14/2015 2:50:13 PM PDT by NYer

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My Story

I grew up in a household living with not only my mother and father, but also my half-brother and his mother. My father had two kids: one with my mom (me) and one with another woman (my half-brother, who was three months older than I). When my mother was not there, I would see my father and my half-brother’s mother kiss and cuddle. When my half-brother’s mom wasn’t there, I would see my mother and my father kiss and cuddle. Although I was very young, these images still remain with me.

My mother and the mother of my half-brother were best friends. When they were in their late teenage years, they came from Guatemala together to the United States and developed a bond on their journey. My half-brother and I got along very well, but having the same father yet different moms in the household was confusing and troubling. It was confusing and troubling for me because I was never the center of my father’s attention, especially when he would mistreat my mom and when he would show affection to my half-brother’s mom. I hated seeing my father show affection to another woman who was not my mom.

When I was six years old, my father broke off ties with all of us and started a new family with a third woman. It was at this point that my half-brother’s mother and my mother went their separate ways. From that point onward, my mother raised me by herself.

Although this complicated romantic situation was not technically a “throuple,” because the adults each had their own beds and did not engage in three-person sexual acts, it gives a glimpse of what children would experience in such a household.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; marriage; polygamy
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Redefining marriage increases the chances that children miss out on one of the greatest gifts any person can be given: being raised by the man and woman whose love brought them into existence.

I grew up seeing my father kiss and cuddle with two different women in front of me. This was the life I was exposed to until the age of six.

1 posted on 05/14/2015 2:50:14 PM PDT by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...
Children have the right to be loved and nurtured by the two parents who helped create them. They have the right to live in an environment suitable for the raising of a child, not one that is only concerned with the fulfillment of adult desires. If the evidence shows that the best environment for children is the one provided by their mother and father, why willingly challenge this fact of life? Why not promote it instead?

Worth reading the entire article. FYI ping!

2 posted on 05/14/2015 2:50:58 PM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: NYer
A Mother.
And. A Father.
Are. Balance.
3 posted on 05/14/2015 2:56:08 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: NYer

“Bigamy is one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”


4 posted on 05/14/2015 3:00:38 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: NYer

Dad wuz a stud. Not optimal, but at least he knew who Dad was.


5 posted on 05/14/2015 3:11:52 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: NYer

I am so sorry for you. A very difficult situation.


6 posted on 05/14/2015 3:12:52 PM PDT by Dutchboy88
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To: NYer

Who are we to judge?

< / moral relativism >


7 posted on 05/14/2015 3:17:38 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that - Baltimore's Democrat Mayor)
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To: Organic Panic

I’m stealing that one.


8 posted on 05/14/2015 3:26:10 PM PDT by Defiant (Amtrak train derails, therefore......Republicans.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

If that phrase meant anything sensible in its original context, which many conservative Christians believed it did, it has been wrenched out of it and made into a mocking meme now. As if the Pope approved of such arrangements as this, which isn’t true.

I don’t know why people are slinging around such incendiary firebrands.


9 posted on 05/14/2015 3:43:01 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: NYer

As same-sex “marriage” becomes legal and acceptable, and any criticism of it becomes defined as “bigotry”, all sorts of other “arrangements”—including polyamory and abolising the age of consent—will eventually become legal and acceptable, too.

The same goes for the use of reproductive technologies to enable single women to have children without a man at all, and the use of surrogacy to enable both single men and women to have children.

That is EXACTLY what the “gays” want!!!! They want to COMPLETELY ABOLISH both marriage and Christianity! Their allies, the atheists, are right behind them!!!!

PHOOEY to the Atheist-”Gay” Empire!!!!


10 posted on 05/14/2015 4:11:39 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“At this point what difference does it make?” Hillary Milhouse Clinton.


11 posted on 05/14/2015 4:58:27 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Honorary Serb

Yes——it is to regress us back to paganism and Satanism or Eastern mysticism (collective cultures/irrational group think cultures where Masters control ALL IDEAS)-—where Natural Law Theory (Age of Reason, Individualism (Christianity), and Enlightenment) are obliterated from the minds of ALL children. They have to have irrational sodomy (Vice) shoved in ALL the children’s faces so ALL children remain tribal brains.....easily controlled and devoid of understanding Truth/God and Natural Laws (Rule of Law/Higher Laws are tossed out for Stalin’s “Rule of Man”.

They want ALL our children to have minds like the little pretty harem boys in Afghanistan so they embed desires so perverse that there is NO LOVE for the “Other”-—only brutal HATE for all that is true diversity. An immature narcissism; Fixation in Latency (irrationality) where mature, Rational Man is impossible. No possibility of a Newton or Jefferson.

They need children to have tribal minds-—devoid of abstract, profound thought like ALL our Founding Fathers where 2 * 2 = 4. To be “happy slaves” for the State, the Marxists have to obliterate any ideology which promotes biological connections and Natural instincts in children-—to make them amendable to slavery.


12 posted on 05/14/2015 5:12:34 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: NYer

Selfishness plays a huge role in situations like this. They never put the children first.


13 posted on 05/14/2015 6:05:55 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Organic Panic

Polyamory is wrong! it’s either multiamory or polyphilia. Mixing Greek and Latin roots is wrong!


14 posted on 05/14/2015 6:27:03 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido
Then automobile is wrong. It should be autokineticon.
15 posted on 05/14/2015 6:30:30 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: NYer

Oh, James. I am so sorry you grew up with this sin, but know it only makes Jesus even more aware of you and your needs.


16 posted on 05/14/2015 6:55:09 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Publius

Exactly.


17 posted on 05/14/2015 7:55:14 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Organic Panic
“Bigamy is one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

Hilarious. Not.

18 posted on 05/14/2015 8:39:28 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“Hey, it’s 2 consenting adults - who gets hurt?” - the average practitioner of things not right...


19 posted on 05/15/2015 2:47:25 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: savagesusie

Right On Target - Fire For Effect!


20 posted on 05/15/2015 5:19:06 AM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionaly blank.)
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