everyone in town is your relative? what a large family you have. at any rate, your post is irrelevant, because the OP lives in the US.

Just because in your "culture" your parents are expected to be close minded pricks, sorry "conservative and traditional" doesn't mean that's the only way to do things or how things should be done. To say people having a threesome is purely western is simply stupid, and to think that embracing a "western" attitude of to each their own is close minded, while supporting what sounds like a far more close minded attitude is both retarded and hypocritical. "Oh noes you don't think everyone has to be like to and you want to give people the freedom to do what they want. Why are you such a narrow minded prick?! STOP OPPRESSING ME!!" or some bullshit like that. Go back to wherever the hell it is that you're from so you can beat your wife and your kids for being themselves. I can't imagine what people in your "culture" do to homosexuals or women who want to be treated as equals.

Also, I can see the kids being hurt for being left out or whatever, but saying that they're parents should do what they do because they might be oppressed is about the least American thing one can do. We don't bow to tyranny, whatever for it may take, we fight it. I suppose 50 years ago you'd be talking down about the same parents if they were a monogamous mixed race couple too, cause back then, that've violated the "conservative and traditional values" of the time, and even the laws in some places. Get off your high horse and STFU or back to your backward country.

What the **** are you talking about? 1. I never said I, nor anyone else, was oppressed. 2. I never said people outside of America or other western countries don't have three somes 3. WTF? You need lessons on reading comprehension. You don't make any sense. I was commenting on the fact that many people on this site don't think a child should express being revolted or ashamed that everyone else knows that their parents have been having a threesome with a guy who goes on family trips with them. FYI: I am American student at Berkeley. I can't imagine how immature you must be to write such a nonsensical and accusatory comment to an idea that challenges your stubbornly held beliefs. Why don't you try thinking outside the scope of American ideals for once?

jujubes88, I'm sorry you got such nasty comments in reply. I really appreciate your giving your point of view from outside the USA/western culture. Shock and embarrassment would be a natural response for lots of kids.