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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 2198197" data-attributes="member: 18832">On a related tangent, I know three brothers. One of them is about five years older than the other two, who are the same age. Yet the oldest brother resembles one of the two youngest very closely, and the third resembles neither.This is because these brothers' father is in a long-term (a little less than 30 years, I believe) "marriage" with two different women. The two youngest brothers have different biological mothers, and were actually born about four months apart. As far as I know, their parents are in a triangular arrangement rather than a "V" as you put it elsethread - they all share a bed, for one thing.I mention this because many people might think such an arrangement unusual, but in this case it has produced a well-adjusted set of children. All three brothers regard their father's two "wives" as their mothers without apparent reference to biology (at least, this is true of the youngest two; I don't know the oldest as well).It's nice to have your beliefs about the unnecessary hysteria of sexual "morality" validated from time to time. I'm personally inclined towards monogamy, but I've never believed that a relationship between more than two people which was free of the power imbalances referred to earlier in the thread would necessarily be any less stable or loving a family in which to raise children - and I'm glad to know these brothers prove me right.</blockquote>

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