Nearly a third of all children under 18 live in single parent households. Nearly 8 million of these children live with single parents who have never been married. The social support network formerly provided by the extended family has virtually disappeared from contemporary life. Clearly, doing more of the same thing and expecting different outcomes no longer makes sense. The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.
We honor and respect those who freely choose monogamy. It is unquestionably a valid choice for many. Nevertheless, we equally and firmly believe it is time to lay aside prejudice, inflexibility, ignorance and the insistence that humanity in all its wondrous diversity must adhere to a single acceptable model of intimate relationships, or do without.