The Law's Duty to Promote the Kinship System: Implications for Assisted Reproductive Techniques and for Proposed Redefinitions of Familial Relations

[Wiherever you go I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Ruth 1:162 [H]uman beings ... look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then, we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well: and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it,... [i]t would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other. Their insights are reflected and their articles are cited at many points ... in the.pres essay. Most recenly, Professor Jorge Nicolis Lafferiere's article, The Challenges that Developments in Genetics and Artificial Reproduction Present to Imergenerational Solidarity (cited infra) has been the inspiration and source of several of the insights set forth herein. Further thanks are extended to Gordana Kova ek-member of the Serbian Commission for a Draft Civil Code, whose article, State Regulation of Surrogate Motherhood: Liberal or Restrictive Approach (cited infra) has been most helpful on issues relating to surrogacy.