so long as the only people involved are adults.
I don’t know how I feel about all this creativity when there are children involved. Not because it’s inherently wrong to introduce children to the alternative lifestyle of polyamory, but simply because one of the greatest gifts you can give a child is stability. The more people you add to the mix, the less stable it becomes, I believe, and I think it is cruel to unnecessarily drag your kids into too many parental-type relationships that could blow up, taking the kid with it. The situation can be reassessed as the child or children grow, but I’d put an arbitrary absolute minimum age limit on introducing additional partners into the family at maybe 12, if you insist on doing it at all, and I don’t think you ought.
There are many sacrifices that must be made in order to be a really good parent who brings up a really healthy, happy, well-adjusted human being. I think eschewing polyamory for the duration of the child’s minority is one of them.
stoid
PS: This does not necessarily apply in a true group-living situation, as in a commune, where there is a whole community of people participating in rasing the children. I’m not sure how I feel about that, either, but I think it is different that otherwise being a relatively average family leading average lives, and introducing additional sexual/love partners into an otherwise average situation.