Traditional Marriage: My Uncle was married to 6 different women [View all]

[HockeyMom]

Ok, not at the same time, and the 6th marriage was his original wife. He had children with all these women. Marriage and divorce, over and over. Perfectly legal and "sacred, holy, marriage between one man and one woman". This was back in the 50s and 60s. My Uncle was the joke of the family. "So who is his wife now and which mothers belong to which children?" Family members really looked down of him and all his children. I think he had 8. You needed a scorecard. However, because this was one man and one woman (at a time) what he did was somehow "right"?

I also had a Aunt, who was married for a time to a man, and had a child with him, who was a lesbian. She did this mostly to cover up to society at the time, and because she wanted to have a child. Let gays marry members of the opposite sex, as they say Think that will last? Well, it didn't in my Aunt's situation, and her divorce was the best thing that happened to her, my cousin, and her partner. She raised my cousin with her partner, until she died. They were together for over 30 years and had a very stable, loving, home life in which my cousin was raised. NO person in my family ever criticized my lesbian Aunt and her Partner the way they did my straight Uncle and his multiple marriages and children.

STABILITY is the key, not the sexual orientation of the parents. I can tell you that all my (half) cousins from my Uncle's marriages grew up to have far more problems than my one cousin who grew up with TWO mothers, and No father.