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by 4ggr0 2071 days ago
Of course you can raise kids and be married while having room-mates, it's just not the standard way of living. I know of some homes where 4-5 people live together and all their salaries are put on the same bank account. Doesn't matter if someone's a student or working full time.

It's obviously an alternative lifestyle and I don't know if I could do it. But saying that having kids, being married and having room-mates is impossible is not a fact, but an opinion.

I wonder if there are people living together in the some home and in a polyamorous relationship and simultaneously have kids, also living in the same home. Basically a whole community living together.

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Just because it's possible doesn't mean it's mainstream. As someone who's seen Asian households of this sort, it doesn't end very well quite often.
Are you supposing that our nuclear family never ends in a bad way? Or that it ends bad less often than say the traditional Asian model?
Well you know how nuclear family conflicts are right? But now imagine if multiple nuclear family conflicts were to happen in the same dwelling. Even better, when those conflicts feed off each other and fester.