I'm biased, because I love @primalpoly, but this is so excellent. No one has ever written about polyamory with respect for tradition and religion, understanding of evolution and psychology and an open and reasonable mindset like this before.https://quillette.com/2019/10/28/polyamory-is-growing-and-we-need-to-get-serious-about-it/ …
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Replying to @sentientist @primalpoly
Where it breaks down is in child rearing. I and many of my peers were raised in families like that before polyamory was a term. It was “alternative”. We all suffered at the hands of “step” parents, because they were in intense competition for their children. Really bad for kids.
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Think of the literature on abuse by step parents, then amplify it 10 fold because they are actually in direct competition in a polyamorous setting. Multiple women with kids to the same father is particularly bad, all it takes is 1 mother feeling threatened for resources.
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Do you have stories you can link to? I would be super curious to read those...
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Replying to @MashaBirkby @themamabun and
Research? I've read some of the research about poly in poorer countries being directly linked to more extreme inequality & violence, but haven't heard this particular take Having had experience in multiple polyish, open relationships I can say there are only $$ & handsome men.
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Replying to @Zugzwangame @themamabun and
Do you have any links? I’m not disputing your claims, just want to go further down the rabbit hole of reading about this.
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Replying to @MashaBirkby @Zugzwangame and
I can’t link you to the experience of myself and many of my peers growing up this way. Unless you want to study us I’m afraid it’s anecdotal, but readily explained by existing evol biology. There is plenty of studies on “family structure” and “outcomes” if you wish to deep dive.
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There's quite a lot of work on this, albeit with plenty of room for confounds and alternative explanations when each analysis is taken individually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_effect …pic.twitter.com/krolY8sS0q
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Replying to @webdevMason @themamabun and
Hmm. Makes sense. The pro-poly books and sites claim that everything is peachy with raising kids in a poly household. I’d be curious to read up things that those kids have to say...
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