meet Kanab's most "natural family"

[Photo Credit:Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune]
The Trib found Kanab's most natural family: married in an LDS temple, male breadwinner (a family-practice physician), mother/homemaker (even churns her own butter), and a "full quiver" of children (seven preteen kids - including triplets). And yet, unlike their mayor, they don't think anything less of the "unnatural" family's, in fact, they have greater respect for them than the traditional family:

"We're really lucky to have the family we've got," Jonathan [Bowman, 38] says. "But we really admire people who don't have the personal structure of a family, for the efforts they make to raise their kids and do the best they can."
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"Part of the resolution . . . is [men] are supposed to be home builders. Well, I'm a barn builder," he says with a laugh.

You see, Jonathan understands what it is like to be a social outcast. After all, when he did his residency, people thought it was odd that he had (at the time) 5 children. His wife Donna (also 38), understands why some are taking offense at the resolution "People feel very defensive if they feel they are under attack or that they are being judged," she says.