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At the Alpha Farm, decision making is done my consensus, worked out in family-style meetings. Tensions are soothed at meeting's end by holding hands.

On the farm the work is often hard, with all but the very old and very young working nine hour days. May, the stepmother of a member, hangs out the wash.

At the Oregon commune, Alpha Farm, the day begins at 6am, milking cows and cooking breakfast for eleven adults and four children. At 7,15 the school bus arrives.

The first all nighter in the men's house was a long exhausting night known to all parents. Crying, diaper changes, sleeplessnesss, which causes Gregg and Scott some grief at first, but ultimately made them feel closer to one another, closer as a…

Anne, Gregg and Scott on their first visit to the pediatrician. Up to this time, despite the men's protests, the women usurped all child care responsibilities.

Gregg, in a rare moment alone with Connor, the son that he share with Scott, Anne and Renee.

Gregg and Scott, Anne and Renee are gay couple who wished to have children. Very close friends, they came together to have a child, Connor who was born to Renee. Legal custody of the child is to be shared.

The urge to runaway is always there says Doug. But so is his love for his children.

Doug, a wanderer his whole life, journeys to a nature preserve when he can't contain the need to go back to the woods, to be by himself.

Vickie and Doug Mullens, parents of five childrena are 'unhappy' yet they stay together for the sake of the kids. They are people of very different tastes, experiences and dreams.