The Contemporary Family: What does it mean to be a parent today?

Single parents, gay parents, adoptive parents, parents thanks to egg or sperm donation. One could call all these new forms of parenthood alternative, running the risk to exclude them, to set them apart, to emphasize their differences, while in fact all families are – and should be – different. From the times of our parents or grandparents, when only one family structure was acceptable, and raising children was considered to be as expected and easy as breathing, to our days, when science and society have allowed for the emergence of new parenthood types, while there is also an exhaustive listing of the right moves, thoughts, opinions about parenting. How important is the concept of biologicality, after all? Are our children ever really “ours”? Is there such a thing as a perfect parent? Stegi invites six parents to discuss modern parenthood and what it means to be a parent today.