%0 Journal Article
%T Peut-on rapprocher la gestation pour autrui de l¡¯adoption ? Can we Compare Surrogate Motherhood and Adoption? From Extended Mothering to Plural Mothering
%A Anne Cadoret
%J Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques
%D 2011
%I Universit¨¦ Catholique de Louvain
%R 10.4000/rsa.241
%X Les configurations familiales que nous constatons aujourd¡¯hui dans nos soci¨¦t¨¦s s¡¯organisent encore ¨¤ partir des grands ¨¦l¨¦ments essentiels ¨¤ un syst¨¨me de parent¨¦ : l¡¯alliance, la filiation et la germanit¨¦. Toutefois, leur mode d¡¯agencement a chang¨¦ et ces trois ¨¦l¨¦ments qui se recoupaient les uns et les autres deviennent maintenant autonomes. Ce changement de mod¨¨le entra nerait un changement de position de tous les personnages inclus dans la construction d¡¯une parent¨¦. ¨¤ partir des travaux de David Schneider montrant l¡¯importance de la loi pour dire la ¡°bonne¡± parent¨¦ et de la remarque de Godelier affirmant qu¡¯un homme et une femme ne suffisent jamais ¨¤ faire un enfant, je lirai les rapports parus r¨¦cemment sur la procr¨¦ation assist¨¦e et l¡¯adoption au Qu¨¦bec et en France pour r¨¦fl¨¦chir ¨¤ ces deux mani¨¨res d¡¯entrer en parent¨¦. Ces rapports nous r¨¦v¨¨lent la place particuli¨¨re que tient la femme dans le mod¨¨le de parent¨¦ occidental d¡¯un seul p¨¨re et d¡¯une seule m¨¨re. Cette place est en train de bouger, et la m¨¨re n¡¯est plus si ¡°certaine¡± que cela ; d¡¯autres figures maternelles apparaissent, dont l¡¯existence m¨ºme de l¡¯enfant t¨¦moigne. The family configurations we observe in our societies today are still organized based on the major elements essential to a system of family relations : alliance, filiation and sib. However, their mode of arrangement has changed and these three elements, crisscrossing one another, have now become autonomous. This change of model results in a change of position for all persons included in the construction of a family relation. Starting from the works of David Schneider, showing the importance of law in declaring ¡°the good¡± family relation and Godelier¡¯s remark to the effect that a man and a woman are never enough to make a child, I will study the reports published recently on assisted procreation and adoption in Qu¨¦bec and in France in reflecting on these two ways of entering into a family relation. These reports show us the particular place the woman holds in the Western model of family relations involving only one father and only one mother. This place is changing, and the mother is no longer all that ¡°certain¡± ; other maternal figures are appearing, testified to by the very existence the child.
%U http://rsa.revues.org/241