I want to talk about a book that has caught my attention and I really liked the challenge it poses. Is about 'New genealogies, how to approach the family tree in the 21st century?', from genealogist Mireia Nieto.
Times change, society evolves and with it, family models. Do we all have a father and a mother, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents and 16 great-great grandparents? Well, no. And all these new variants are those addressed in the book.
Rainbow families, reconstituted, single parents, adoptive, childless, heterosexual, coparentality ... Family models are no longer the same from a century ago, not even 20 years ago, and the way of understanding kinship ties must also adapt to The reality of contemporary society.
What place do we give to the biological family of an adoptee? Can you have a father and two biological mothers? Should we include abortions as children or siblings of another person? Can a sperm donor be considered the father of a child? What official link do pregnant women have in a subrogation of the womb with babies that give birth?
These are some of the interesting issues that are addressed in the book 'New genealogies', narrated in a pleasant and understandable language. I especially liked that gestational and perinatal losses, which are often silenced, and assisted reproduction techniques are considered, because children born in this way also have the right to know their origin.
You can buy it online at the link that I leave below in paper format (15 euros) and pdf (9 euros).
