Through the Eyes of Children

After Saturday's Atlanta Poly-Southside Meet up, I couldn't help but think how the world would be viewed through the eyes of a child with polyamorous parents. Let's see...we could probably begin with multiple people who often model loving relationships and interactions...whether its Male-Female-Male...Female-Male-Female...the configuration really doesn't matter, dear reader. What would matter is the amount of quality time and love that a child of poly-parents would receive.

In listening to the triad from our Atlanta Polyamory Inc.'s Southside meet-up...who called themselves PBMJ...their children were the center of their lives who simply had to feel the sheer power of three. Think about this, dear reader...with three or more parents, it stands to reason that one of the parents will always be available to meet the needs of a child. At school functions, when most people have a couple of people showing up for events, a child with poly-parents could have all of their parent show up...with cell phone cameras in hand...to document it from multiple perspectives. With multiple parents in a household, you have various strengths that support the weaknesses of the others...so it would be easy to go to Mom for Math, Dad for creative writing and still another Dad for fun adventures...away from books and traditional learning. Also, chances are that when one parent is exhausted, the other two are ready, willing and able to pick up the slack. With the positives behind having a poly-family...many of which are still unknown to me...it seems that more people would begin to support polyamorous unions and families. Only time will tell, dear reader....

(Note...Now, I am not saying that poly-parents do not have issues...as PBMJ pointed out...but it stands to reason that while they have more to gain by being together...they also have more to lose by not finding ways to solve common problems...BECAUSE their children are involved...just like with monogamous parents.)

Among my hopes for the future...I pray that our poliwogs will thrive...and from their interactions in our society, they will become the voices of the movement or at the very least convey their experiences as a polyamory-insider. In actuality, the children of polyamorous adults could become the living, breathing and positive proof that such unions can benefit society, as a whole...as the images of the American family continue to change, dear reader...

Polyamorously Yours,

Cindy
Atlanta PolyNewbie