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I haven't been on the best of terms with the family. Stepfather essentially hates me, my mother prefers their other 2 kids and almost all my life I've been on the short end of the stick from all 4 of them as they gave their absolute best to their 2 other kids, the stepfather would buy their 2 stuff all the time and it will almost always be the top of the line, while I usually had hand me downs. Their education, from K-12 those 2 went to one very pricey private school while I went to a state one up until middle school when my grandmother brought me to live in England.

Their parents sent each of them to college and even paid the full price for it. Me? I opted to study in England and they gave me...errrr they gave me nothing and told me I was on my own because the stepfather was only going to pay for his own 2.

I did very well in university. The 2 half siblings were a disaster when it came to education, one dropped out after freshman year while the other went on for 6 years in college and till today is yet to graduate. Both went to work for the family business and not just them but their spouse too are working for them, well more like they all draw funds from the company but do nothing.

6 months ago my mom asked me to come help in the business as they needed some skills, she promised to put me in charge. I told her no at first then she went on how I had never done anything for them despite the loads they had done for me.

I decided to let bygones be bygones and returned to US to work for them despite having a very good life in England, first she gave me a free hand at the company, managed to stop it from losing money and even paid down some of the debts, in fact 7 of the 9 deals netted in since then has been those that I had brought in, I had them work on it and the stepfather got pissed off I was ordering his kids about to do work, he decided to take control of the company and made their eldest son "CEO" and their youngest daughter "CEO2" With their new found power, instead of investing in equipment as I had planned, they each bought themselves a new car, they each took a bonus rather than pay down the debt and seriously affected the cash flow so much so I can't even do my work.

Last Friday, an old family rival approached me and asked me to work for him, he even gave me an offer letter for the job... am thinking of taking up this job and telling them to go to hell.

I have a friend that recently got his wife pregnant. He found out that she had started taking fertility drugs without his knowledge. I was surprised that there wasn't any law saying that he should be informed of her decision to do so.

I know when a man or woman gets fixed so they can't have kids or gets a surgery to reversed it so they can have kids again, their spouse has to sign a paper showing they have been informed. It seems like going on a drug that changes if a person can have kids should or not should also be something the spouse is made aware of.

If a husband started taking some sort of male birth control pill without telling his wife, while they are having a baby that would definitely be something the woman should know about.

So what I am asking is do you agree that the spouse should have a legal right to know if the other person has done something to alter the odds of them having a child?

Most people are in favor of legalizing gay marriage, why not polygamy for the same reasons, its practiced in some parts of the world why not in western society, hook ups are popular, infidelity is chic, gay relationships have been decriminalized and are more tolerated, some states have civil gay marriages, birth control is plentiful, abortion pill is available, DNA testing is available, would you be in favor of decriminalizing polygamy and making it legal? for the same reasons of gay marriage.