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House Full Of Love Analysis

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House full of Love: Bringing up Children in Polyamorous Relationships
In “House full of Love: Bringing up Children in Polyamorous Relationships”, Alessandra Iantaffi (2009) shares a personal narrative of her experience as a participant in qualitative research on queer polyamorous relationships. Iantaffi leaves the audience with an authentic experience of lives lived outside heteronormativity, in the process, trying to create space for alternative family models other than the conventional nuclear family typically dictated by Western ideology. This article provides a basic understanding of queer polyamorous relationships and what they look like as part of a family unit and in parenting. Iantaffi does not paint a fantastical vision of the lives of queer polyamory, rather …show more content…

This was obviously an important connection to make possibly as part of her own experience, but she offered no conjecture in the text to explain this throughout the main parts of her article. One can assume that child welfare as a structure guided by patriarchal euro western ideology has served to scrutinize parenting outside the norms of nuclear, monogamous family structures. In my personal experience in Child Welfare I have seen the scrutiny in the past over same sex couples seeking to foster or adopt children. It would have been helpful for her to situate the issues directed toward Child Welfare, for example in increased investigations, involvement, attributing being queer to issues experienced by a child, or in fostering and adopting youth. Further it would be good in her concluding remarks to explain what that scrutiny is connected to such as the fear and ignorance that permeates in society and directs policy as in child

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