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Nonreproductive Technologies : Remediating Kin Structure with Donor Gametes

University of California, San Francisco

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Jennifer.Harrington{at}ucsf.edu.

	Abstract

This article examines the absence of biological relatedness in couples where the use of a third-party gamete donor casts doubt on the notion of conventional kinship. The authors observe that individuals who have used technology to create a family remediate relatedness through a dehistoricized idea of kinship in which the traditional concept is replaced with the concept of chance. The article also examines how inherited value is replaced by strategies that redefine the ways in which donor gamete parents can pass their values on to their children. This examination is accomplished by looking at how couples who used donated gametes articulate the ways in which familial relatedness is left open to chance.

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