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A review by themadmaiden
One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love by Rebecca Walker
2.0
Some of the stories were good. However a lot of them were annoying.
Some of the story tellers came off as arrogant. And just plain idiotic. And yes, I mean the parents who wander around in a van and decided health care things like vaccinations were too mainstream for their kids. And brag about how they gave birth at home and lived illegally in buildings they didn't own.
A lot of the stories seemed focused on married people. And even the one about the non married couple was one that seemed to be them going on about how much better they were then everyone else. I was also hoping there would be at least one story about someone in an asexual relationship as well, but sadly no.
Oh, and the woman who told her friend in a bad, possibly abusive marriage, to stay married? Because she didn't think divorces did anything but hurt the kids and were only good for the wife, who should stay miserable apparently?
What.the.hell.
No really, what the hell? That was disgusting.
Some of the story tellers came off as arrogant. And just plain idiotic. And yes, I mean the parents who wander around in a van and decided health care things like vaccinations were too mainstream for their kids. And brag about how they gave birth at home and lived illegally in buildings they didn't own.
A lot of the stories seemed focused on married people. And even the one about the non married couple was one that seemed to be them going on about how much better they were then everyone else. I was also hoping there would be at least one story about someone in an asexual relationship as well, but sadly no.
Oh, and the woman who told her friend in a bad, possibly abusive marriage, to stay married? Because she didn't think divorces did anything but hurt the kids and were only good for the wife, who should stay miserable apparently?
What.the.hell.
No really, what the hell? That was disgusting.