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Here’s an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon — any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw a typical family.
The shape of family has changed in the 21st century. While the nuclear family still exists, many more types of kinship surround us.
Kin is an investigation into what influences us to have children and the new ways that have made parenthood possible. It delves into the experiences of couples without children, single parents by choice and rainbow families, and investigates the impacts of adoption, sperm donation, IVF and surrogacy, and the potential for a future of designer babies. Assisted reproductive technology has developed quickly, and the ways in which we think and speak about its implications — both legally and ethically — need to catch up.
Written by journalist Marina Kamenev, Kin: Family in the 21st century is an incisive and powerful look at how families are created today, and how they might be created in the future.
Author: Marina Kamenev
Paperback Published March 2024 448 pages
‘A careful and compassionate exploration of the creativity, pain and power involved in the eternally imperfect art of family making.’ — Gina Rushton, author of The Most Important Job in the World
‘A forensically researched book that’s impossible to put down, Kamenev deftly demonstrates how society’s understanding of family has changed through the generations and what it might mean now. You’ll be thinking about the issues she explores for years to come.’ — Isabelle Oderberg, author of Hard to Bear: Investigating the science and silence of miscarriage