The Realities of the Polyamorous Christian Parent

Forging a path ahead about what family looks like in the context of non-monogamy

Image via me (or maybe Daniel? Definitely not Ty)

I have enough social media savvy and conventionally attractive partners to have been famous on Instagram or TikTok as a “polyamorous family” type of account. My partners are funny, Daniel has a background in video editing, Ty has experience in improv and acting, and my kids are uniquely hilarious and smart, and I’m not just saying that. I often post their comments and quotes to friends or on my social media pages which are only for people I know and trust, mostly in real life.

However, my ethics could not abide a reality where I made my children “perform.” My family is sacred to me, and while I understand the impulse to depict our normal lives to a world that broadly hates polyamorous people and thinks their children will be very fucked up as a result of their parents’ non-monogamy, as an anti-capitalist, I can’t let our actual lives become content farms for clicks.

I’m not above that shit for myself, of course. I would love to be famous and have enough money to pay off my many debts. I’d love to be an established polyamorous writer and speaker, able to quit my day job. So far, I can’t, though as always — I’m accepting any advice about how to accomplish that.

However, as a result, I’ve not written enough content on what it means to be a polyamorous parent, especially a polyamorous Christian parent. I mean to rectify that with this post and give a more in-depth look at what it means to be a parent who is both a Christian and non-monogamous. Let’s dig in.