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Articles by Andrew Solomon: Marriage & Family


Feb 2024

Pastoral Poetry

When Andrew Solomon and his husband decided to trade in city life for the charms of the American countryside, a down-at-heel house called Marienruh seemed the perfect blank ...

Jan 2023

Throuples aren’t immoral – and neither is my own ‘scandalous’ marriage

Why should we think it shocking for someone to love multiple others? We don’t restrict any other relationship to a binary.

Mar 2021

The Shape of Love

From opposite sides of the culture, parallel campaigns for legal recognition may soon make multiple-partner marriages as unremarkable as same-sex marriages.

Jun 2019

The First New York Pride March Was an Act of ‘Desperate Courage’

It wasn’t always feathers, floats and celebrities.

Dec 2018

New Family Values

Allowing people more latitude in deciding what makes a family runs parallel to allowing them to determine what makes a person. It enables the blossoming of respect for all ...

Oct 2018

The $2,000 Kente Cloth

Pink, green, yellow, and white, it fairly glittered on the counter... I knew that it and I had a future together, though I didn't yet know what it was.

Jul 2018

The immigration crisis is about the devaluation of love

The separation of immigrant families from their children is not merely a disgusting failure of sympathy by the American government, but also a surefire way to break thousands ...

Aug 2017

It’s Never Too Early to Travel with Your Kids

To be a responsible world citizen, you need to understand how wide and beautiful the world is, and how many kinds of both pain and great joy it contains.

Apr 2017

Families have evolved. Now language must too

We need new words for new kinds of relatedness, ones that don’t simply hark back to traditional roles

Feb 2017

Fear and Loathing in Trump’s America

The daily roller coaster of rights tenuously sustained or completely undermined is dizzying.