Document II
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The authors analyze research material collected from same-sex female couples (living in Belgium) who have had artificial insemination, with an unknown donor, and same-sex male couples (living in France) who have chosen to use surrogacy. The testimonies of their parental journey make it possible to learn about their unique family experience, to observe how parents transmit origin stories to their children and how the children integrate these stories and grasp their dual filiation, either maternal or paternal. The data was collected using a mixed approach: semi-structured interviews with parents and projective material (family tree, Children’s Apperception Test, drawing the family) with children. This approach provides a space for each member of the family to speak and makes it possible to observe the weaving of intersubjective family ties. Analysis of interviews with parents highlights the construction of origin stories in which third-party donors appear to varying degrees. Donors are integrated into the parents’ discourse depending on their degree of contribution to the family project and/or the socio-family representations at work in the constitution of maternal and paternal filiation bonds (biological, legal, social). This leads to a difference in investment on the part of male couples (and sometimes between them) and female couples (and sometimes between them) vis-à-vis third-party participants. It can be seen that imaginary representations with multiple variations are constructed for the children concerned by our studies. We also observe the children’s ability to situate the people in their lives and grasp their role in bringing them into the world.
Réseaux sociaux