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> Personally, I think we'd all be a lot better off if we adopted open and polyamorous relationships in a large way.

What you suggest seems to go again the Universal Declaration of Human rights (Article 16.3) which states that:

"The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State."



I don't agree that everyone wants a polyamorous and open relationship. Myself, I am in one, and it suits me.

However, how do you define a family? Polyamorous families exist, families with parents in open relationships exist, and they are just as much families as monogamous families.


The common definition of a family, and the one referred to by the article is "a group consisting of two parents and their children living together as a unit."


OK, but what of the other families I mentioned? Are you simply saying they're not families? Neither does the definition mention the monogamy of the parents.


They're not families according to the usual definition, and I don't see how two parents could live with their children together as a unit without them being monogamous.


More specifically: there exists social monogamy and sexual (closed, not open) monogamy. The definition doesn't specify which.




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