Donna, First, I love your examples of real life stories. I learn best that way. I am just wanting to learn how others are dealing with "nontraditional" birth and relationship events. I have been using Reunion for years. Your statement below is not true. Since I first bought it back in the 90s, I could create same-sex marriages, same-sex parentages, alien parents, and you name it. In fact, I could marry myself to a dog and it would take it. I think it was mostly out of humor they did this, but to say that any "outside of marriage event' is not an option is not the case. I was perfectly able to make my half-brother Mike by his biological father and my brother by my mother into the adopted son of my biological father and whose family now all go by Kilby. This is one reason I really like REUNION. It not nearly as dated and constricted as FTM. I was so amazed by this feature, I decided to see if I could create same-sex unions and all manner of variations of "normal." It was as simple as apple pie. So, I am flummoxed as to why you make this statement about Reunion. If anything, it is TOO lenient! Seriously, do I really want my grandmother to be a tomato? Craig On Oct 26, 2012, at 8:24 PM, Donna Price wrote: > I use both Reunion and Family Tree Maker for Mac. Neither has an option > for any relationship outside of marriage.