This is really interesting. I always hypothesized if you actually had stable polycules they'd be theoretically better for childrearing due to the larger number of available adults for supervision and the hedge against loss of a single parent's income...sort of a return to the village of prehistory.
I've always been skeptical of innovations in this field, but if anyone can pull it off it'll be smart people with high incomes. Good luck!
This actually made me think of people whose parents had split up and remarried. I had four parents growing up because of this. It was a bit bewildering to people, but totally normal to me.
This is really interesting. I always hypothesized if you actually had stable polycules they'd be theoretically better for childrearing due to the larger number of available adults for supervision and the hedge against loss of a single parent's income...sort of a return to the village of prehistory.
I've always been skeptical of innovations in this field, but if anyone can pull it off it'll be smart people with high incomes. Good luck!
Basically an ersatz extended family.
> he’s observed his school and generalized that the number of parents children have is drawn from a uniform distribution between 1 and 4
Are there that many poly or otherwise multi-parent families at his school such that he regularly interacts with people with 3 or 4 parents?
Yep! He goes to a tiny hippie microschool in the Bay Area.
This actually made me think of people whose parents had split up and remarried. I had four parents growing up because of this. It was a bit bewildering to people, but totally normal to me.