Ivy --common name for any of a genus of woody vines of the ginseng family. The genus is native to temperate regions of the eastern hemisphere. Ivy plants produce two kinds of leaves during the climbing phase. The leaves have three to five distinct lobes, but during the flowering stage they usually have three indistinct lobes or may even be lobeless. The flowers, borne in terminal umbels, have a five-parted calyx, five-parted corolla, five stamens, and a single pistil. The fruit is a smooth berry that contains a poisonous glucoside. The plant's adventitious rootlets attach to trees or bare walls.	This is the online home for the Ivy family, part of the Vonnegut Artificial Family Utopia. If you can't find the information you are looking for here, or you want to know more about the Ivy Family please email Mike because he's the almighty high-commander of this page.
	The artificial extended family idea that we follow was presented in the book Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut. He explains it all like this: Why are there so many divorces and failed marriages today? Well it used to be that when two people got married they wouldn't just get each other, they'd get huge extended families on both sides. There were tens or hundreds of relatives you could talk to about everything, pals who wouldn't get so mad at you all the time. Now there are very few large extended families so we don't have as many people to talk to. When a married couple fights they may think they are fighting about the house, or sex, or the kids, but what they are really saying to each other is this: you are not enough people. By joining a family like ours, you give yourself a network of family members to draw upon when you're in need. With this many relatives, someone is bound to say yes when you ask for a favour.
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