For several years now, the family has been undergoing major metamorphoses. Divorce, medically assisted reproduction, homoparentality, co-parentality and surrogate motherhood are redefining the contours of filiation and family ties. The "SME" family - father, mother and child - has been replaced by a plurality of models, raising concerns both for children's psychological health and for institutional equilibrium. Are they justified? How is the family changing? Towards what form is the family evolving?

Author

Irène Théry is a sociologist, director of studies at EHESS (Centre Norbert-Elias, Marseille) and a specialist in family law. She is notably the author of La Distinction de sexe. A new approach to equality (Odile Jacob, 2007) and the co-author of Filiation, origins, parenthood with Anne-Marie Leroyer (Odile Jacob, 2014).

Podcast

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