It doesn’t matter who you love or how you love but that you love.
— Rod McKuen (via slychedelic)
The ideal environment for raising children turns out to be not that of the nuclear family but on in which there are at least three secure relationships (gender nonspecific), meaning three relationships that convey the clear message: ‘You will be cared for no matter what.’
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~Carol Gilligan, Joining the Resistance, p. 53
Not that secure relationships are limited to parents, but my first thought reading this passage was, “So poly families are what we should all be aiming for!”
(via feministlibrarian)
THIS. IT TAKES A VILLAGE. i was raised by my single teenage mother, her parents, my grandpa’s parents, a teacher who kept her horse at our house, my primary school best friend’s parents and my mom’s boyfriend and his family. and i am so goddamn well-adjusted for it. seriously. i know i’m messed upbut it wasn’t down to my parentage.
(via soufex)
Eat with the same people you starved with.
I lied!!!!!
