PET's director Sarah Norcross attended 'An Examination of Modern Family Creation and New Family Forms in 2022' on 20 September.
Hosted by Payne Hicks Beach law firm the event discussed legal and ethical perspectives on different forms of family building including IVF, surrogacy and gamete donation.
UK, US and European viewpoints were covered, including a observations from Cambridge researcher Professor Susan Golombok's 40-year career of public reactions to different 'new' types of parents -adoptive, same-sex, and most recently trans. California lawyer Jill Hersch gave a topical presentation on the implications of the recent overturning of Roe v Wade by the US Supreme Court.