Reproductive technologies and systems of kinship

With the advancement of human interventions derived from the numerous discoveries in the field of reproductive technologies in recent decades, new questions arise all the time, challenging research in the humanities. Offering an endless possibility of choices to those who have access to them, corporal interventions and new interventions in the area of human reproduction became now the object par excellence to incite against the construction of narratives that match the complexity of the problems that open up the daily life of common man. Advances in technoscience seem to be making obsolete the criteria that guided the conception of human, putting to rest the possibility of a "natural nature" and bringing us closer to what some authors have termed "post-humanity." Among the issues that challenge us worth mentioning those related to systems of kinship and affiliation at present, to the extent that advances in the technologies of human reproduction shall produce a demand for changes in the parenthood and kinship. The reality of the market offer that expands in semen banks and open the intense search for "genetic ideal types" has brought new effects on the forms of marital and parenthood. We draw particular attention to the challenges that the thinning of the boundaries between nature and technique imposes on the legal field, which is confronted with the emergence of unusual situations for which they have no appropriate parameters.