Received July 20, 2022
Accepted December 02, 2022

Andrew Solomon´s article“Meet my real modern family” published in the Newsweek magazine on February 7th. 2011 deserves a critical reflection from a bioethical perspective, because the new family configurations arise as a consequence of medical practices applied in the field of the assisted reproduction and the legal recognition of gay marriage in our country. Although it’s true that the mutual implication between the techno-scientific offer and the social demands were progressively running the limits of what’s possible and imaginable, we face today realities that don’t have either legal or psychosocial substrate. What happens when a lesbian couple draw on a known gay sperm donor with the aim of inseminating artificially one of these women, and as consequence of this practice a baby is born? And if this same man marries through an equal marriage another man, who is the father of a girl born through In Vitro Fertilization -to avoid sexual intercourse - with the egg of a female friend who marries then a heterosexual man? And when after marriage both gay men decide to have their own child with an anonymous egg and an the surrogated womb of the lesbian woman who gave birth to the 2 children conceived with the sperm of one of the men ? Although the author´s happy story matches with the family pictures of the 4 children and the 3 couples interacting happy and harmonious, as assisted reproduction specialists we can question ourselves about: