Do kids think of sperm donors as family?

Name: Do kids think of sperm donors as family?
Uploaded: 2016-06-18T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 12 min
Description: How do we define a parent -- or a family? Bioethicist Veerle Provoost explores these questions in the context of non-traditional families, ones brought together by adoption, second marriages, surrogate mothers and sperm donations. In this talk, she shares stories of how parents and children create their own family narratives.

TEDxGhent 2016Jun 201612 min1213276 views

Speaker

Veerle ProvoostSustainability Futurist | Forecasting the Green Economy

About this talk

How do we define a parent -- or a family? Bioethicist Veerle Provoost explores these questions in the context of non-traditional families, ones brought together by adoption, second marriages, surrogate mothers and sperm donations. In this talk, she shares stories of how parents and children create their own family narratives.