As society's , some parents are living in 'polyfamory' households, where multiple partners birth and care for all of their children under one roof. Alysia Rodgers, 34, says her and her husband, Tyler, were not looking for polyamory — the term for when a person has one or more romantic partners at the same time, with the enthusiastic consent of everyone involved — when they met Sean Hartless, 46, and his wife, Taya. "We didn't even know what polyamory was, until we started getting feelings for each other," Alysia tells TODAY.
com. Soon, Sean and Taya, 28, were driving nearly two hours to see Alysia and Tyler, 35, in their home in Oregon. Exhausted by the commute and fueled by a desire to see everyone more frequently, the couples moved into a new house together in February 2020.
And that's how polyamory became polyfamory. Tyler and Alysia were already parents to two children, both in elementary school. Tyler says explaining their new living situation to the kids was "really easy.
" "Our kids already knew we were dating Sean and Taya," Tyler tells TODAY.com. "We told them: 'You know mom has a boyfriend and dad had a girlfriend and we're going to move in together, and we're all going to be a big family and they're going to help parent you, so we're going to need you to treat them like you treat us — like parents.
'" Since living together under one roof, the family has added two children. "I birthed one and Taya birthed the other," Alysia says. "We did not regulate the biology".
