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Provoost talks about her talking with children who are part of a family that used a sperm donor. Using the illustration of an apple tree she gave and asked what they thought of the sperm donor, one of them said "I won't put this one up there with the others. He's not part of my family. But I will not put him on the ground. That's too cold and too hard. I think he should be in the trunk because he made my family possible." Sometimes family is not about the warm relationships within and the caring of children, but it can be those who created the family. Sometimes they are the shadow of the family that they created. Children's perspective on family is broad and doesn't fail to include everyone who is a part of it.

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Veerle Provoost: Do kids think of sperm donors as family?

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How do we define a parent -- or a family? Bioethicist Veerle Provoost explores these questions in the context of non-traditional families, ones brought together by adoption, second marriages, surrogate mothers and sperm donations. In this talk, she shares stories of how parents and children create their own family narratives.

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The photograph of two gay men kissing was taken in 1983. A typical family is known to have a woman, a man, and a child, but here there are two dads. In 1983 it was still not accepted socially in the United States of gay families and gay marriages. But this couple shows that they can be a family without being the standard family definition and not gaining the public "family" recognition.

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Mitch Albom is an author known for his inspirational stories with over 40 million copies sold worldwide. His career started when he published Tuesdays With Morrie, a book about him visiting his sociology professor who had a fatal disease. Albom is also part of The Have Faith Haiti Mission in which he is dedicated in helping the Haitian orphans especially after the Haiti earthquake in 2010. At this orphanage is where he met Chika and later adopted her. In 2019 the book Finding Chika was published.

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Marie Antoinette and Her adopted Children | Painted by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in 1787

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Marie Antoinette is sometimes known for her selfishness and also had a unique family created. For a royal family, it is natural to have a bloodline connection as their only family because only those part of the bloodline could continue the throne. Marie Antoinette didn't worry about that fact and adopted children. The family she created was a healthy one in which every child felt as if they were a part of the family from the beginning. She paid for their living, and education and gave them unconditional love. Even if she was a royal person she did not set a line between the royal family and other family, but accepted the children as who they are.

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"We are Family" by Michael J. Burt shows through his poem what it means to be a family. In the first lines, he writes, "we are family, although we do not resemble " He starts off the poem with that family does not have to be a blood-related relationship with others but it is a warm relationship. The poem continues on stating the differences the two people have, but they are still a family no matter what. Family isn't about the similarities of something, but something deeper.

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we are family,
although we do not resemble
although i am black and you are white
although you are rich and i am poor

we are family,
even though i am democrat, and you are republican
even though your ancestors are from Iraq, and mine are from Africa
even though you teach the class i’m enrolled in

we are family,
although i’m a poet and you are a singer
although you are old and i am young
although i’m a gentleman and you a lady

we are family,
even though you praise Allah and I praise Jesus Christ
even though i love football and you play soccer
even though you are a Sagittarius and i’m a Cancer

we are family,
although i prefer rhythm and blues and you love blue grass
even though you have a car and i have a bus…to ride
although i have love and you are alone
even though you dress one way, and i dress the other
although my family loves me and yours does not know of you

we are family,
you and i are family,
me and you are family,
no matter what the difference is
family we are, forever
because we are here, and here is earth
and earth is our home
so here, we will live,
we are family.

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we are family, although i prefer rhythm and blues and you love blue grass even though you have a car and i have a bus...to ride although i have love and you are alone even though you dress one way, and i dress the other although my family loves me and yours does not know of you

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Recently France changed their nation school forms into 'parent 1' and 'parent 2' from the standard "Mother" and "Father." This shows that the nation has somewhat accepted that there are different families in the world and that not every family is a mother and father basis. They expanded what is considered a family to single-parent families, same-sex families, and guardians. Simple changes to the forms change what is family to many people and this is a lot more inclusive than mother and father.

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France's National Assembly has voted in favor of an amendment removing the terms mother and father from forms in the nation's schools, instead using the terms "parent 1" and "parent 2."

The amendment, which passed into law alongside a new school bill Tuesday, has been seen by France's majority La République en Marche Party (LREM) as a necessary step to bring France's schools into line with the European nation's 2013 same-sex marriage law.

While the LREM, the centrist party founded by sitting French President Emmanuel Macron, has heralded the amendment to the School of Trust Bill, conservative parties have dismissed the development as a danger to society.

"The amendment aims to anchor into law the family diversity of children in the administrative forms submitted in school," LREM lawmaker Valérie Petit said, according to the French outlet 20 Minutes.

Rodrigo Arenas, co-chair of Fédération des Conseils de Parents d'Élèves (FCPEP), the country's largest federation of parents, called the amendment a "very good thing." He explained that the bill now "takes into account changing family situations" and "resonates with the law passed on the fight against harassment, because often in situations of child harassment, children have been targeted for not conforming."

According to France's Le Figaro newspaper, Xavier Breton, a conservative deputy for the country's Les Républicains (LR), denounced the law as frightening, saying it was a result of "politically correct thinking that did not correspond to reality." He also contended that while his view might be considered outmoded by his opponents, 95 percent of legal unions in France were comprised of male-female couples.

Eric Ciotti, another rightwing lawmaker, called the law a "fantasy." He added that he felt the "negotiation of gender" would "deconstruct the balance of society."

The prospect of introducing the terms "parent 1" and "parent 2" on forms in schools in France first emerged during the debate surrounding France's same-sex marriage law, the Marriage for All Law, passed in 2013. However, the amendment was kicked into the long grass, to the extent that Macron's own education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, had opposed it on the grounds that it was not suitable for national legislation.

France's main far-right party, which progressed to the second round of the country's 2017 presidential elections, has voiced its disdain for the amendment. The head of the Rassemblement National (RN) said "the mask had fallen" from the face of the LREM, claiming they were showing their contempt for the family.

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"Mother" and "father" replaced with "parent 1" and "parent 2" in French schools under same-sex amendment

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France's National Assembly has voted in favor of an amendment removing the terms mother and father from forms in the nation's schools, instead using the terms "parent 1" and "parent 2."

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Finding Chika takes place first in Haiti in 2010, when Chika. She is born three days after the Haitian Earthquake which destroyed many homes of people and broke many families up. Chika's story about her real family is that most of her family died after the earthquake and she was sent to an orphanage. The orphanage was kind of her new family in Haiti as she bonded with the other children that went through the same situation. The other family she has is with Mitch Albom and his wife when they adopt her and go to Detroit, New Jersey in 2015. At Detroit, they went through the process of creating a family, which Albom was not familiar with.