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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a progressive community in CA with lots of "non-standard" relationships at the parent level--throuples, etc.  The kids took it in stride and seemed mostly fine.  This same community also had lots of really wealthy kids, many with divorced or workaholic parents or parents having extramarital affairs.  Those kids really had some issues.  [/quote]

You can't really know that your peers, who were children when you were (if you "grew up" around the same time) were or still are "mostly fine."

Not commenting on the "non-standard" relationships per se, at all. Just noting here that saying "I grew up around kids in these families and they took it in stride etc." really means little; you can't actually know how in-stride they took anything, or how they see things now that they are adults and presumably you're no longer around them, unless you stayed in the area.

This is the kind of "evidence" that's not only purely anecdotal, it's based on your childhood and teen years and on a place you maybe no longer live. Not great to trot out as an example for anything. Neither is your claim that the "wealthy" kids and those with divorced or workaholic parents etc. had issues then or have them now. A kid's or teen's recollections aren't terribly useful years later, unless you're recollecting your own family's stuff.[/quote]

I agree with you 100%--I don't really know.  That said, I am going to go out on a limb and say that childhood environment means I "know" a heck of a lot more about this that 90% of the people commenting on this thread, half of whom seem to view anything but monogamous vanilla sex as on par with cannibalism.[/quote]

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