Tag: Research

  • Polyamory and Children: Research Update

    List has been updated with more recent work by Dr. Elizabeth Sheff. I haven’t heard back from other researchers yet, but if I do I’ll add their newer work as well. A lot of the newer stuff is publicly available, so skip to the bottom if you want something you can read and don’t have…

  • Polyamory and Children: Where is the Research At?

    Nothing I wrote here has changed substantially in the last few years. However, there was a great deal more research on children raised in polyam families than I was aware of when I wrote this. And more research has been done since then. Most of that research has been small scale and not longitudinal, so…

  • Polyamory Hurts Kids? Not in the Real World

    Any parent who chooses to enter a polyamorous relationship will sooner or later run into the charge that polyamory hurts kids, and they are being selfish by putting their desires over their kids’ well-being. I recently ran across a blog post claiming to be based on psychological research that used big fancy words to say…