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Starting out from two seemingly unconnected illustrations, the author seeks to think out the effects of social change on individuals’ attitudes towards parenthood. Claiming autonomy, creating and using a “co-parental ” network around the child: the aim is to measure the clinical advantages to be accrued in paying attention to the terms of encounter or non-encounter between parents’ creativity and their environment. Finally, the author gets to the stage of paraphrasing D.W. Winnicott by declaring that “there is no such a thing as a parent! ”