It's time to go home! Just like in a Christmas story, the family finally gathers around the tree. But in stories, there are often difficult trials. This story is no exception.

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Sources:

Article: The art of not sweeping behind one's door: understanding men's repertoire of domestic inaction thanks to Christine Delphy, by Laura Carpentier-Goffre, 2022

Study: Surrogate mothers 10 years on: A longitudinal study of psychological well-being and relationships with the parents and child, Jadva, V., Imrie, S., & Golombok, S., 2015, Human Reproduction, v. 30

Report: Sexist acts during gynecological and obstetric care, HCE, 2018

Article: Médiapart: Sexism, racism, and homophobia: the High Council for Equality lives the opposite of what it preaches

Article: Médiapart: The High Council for Equality is bogged down in crisis

Comic book: Women don't die by chance, by Rotman, Ferné, and Bouillon

Essay: Creating a different kind of family, Gabrielle Richard

Study: Maternal mortality in France, Santé Publique France, ENCMM 2016-2018

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To go further:

CLARA Association

APGL Association

Mes Deux Papas Association

ADFH Association

Collectif Familles Association

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Mixed by Les Belles Fréquences. Copyright: “Beautiful Daughter,” by Jason Shaw; “A Jolly Good Christmas” by The Jangle Book; “Deck the Halls” by Martin Riopel; “The Lost City” by Tewar; “Birth of Life” by SoundDesign; “Get the Pressure” by Klimenko Music.

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It's the long-awaited moment! (And what a long wait it has been!!) Everything converges on this moment lasting just a few hours: the birth. And yet... we prepare so little for it, especially as men. What are the particularities of a birth in a surrogacy process? What about the first separation?

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Sources:

Essay: Faire famille autrement (Building a Family Differently), by Gabrielle Richard

Essay: Pourquoi m’as-tu abandonné (Why Did You Abandon Me), by Jean-Charles Bouchoux

Essay: Rupture(s) (Breakup(s), by Claire Marin

Podcast: France Inter, In Utero, by Zoé Varier

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To learn more:

CLARA Association

APGL Association

Mes Deux Papas Association

ADFH Association

Collectif Familles Association

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Mixed by Les Belles Fréquences. Copyright: “Beautiful Daughter,” by Jason Shaw; “An Epic Journey,” by Elliott; “Southern Grit,” by Justin Breame; “A Sprinkling of Magic,” by Porter Productions; “Pagoda,” by Marc Walloch.

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Clearly, no one knows how to be a dad. And yet, when a male couple becomes parents, they have to figure it out, because there is no woman in the household forced to fill in the gaps. And this is far from easy when the short length of paternity leave keeps them away from the crib...

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Sources:

· Les couilles sur la table, Tuaillon

· Les enfants vont bien, Démettre

· Parentalité(s), Bouychou

· Faites des gosses, Revol

· Chroniques du sexisme ordinaire, Marine-Pétroline

· Papatriarcat, Rostein

· Mansplaining, Messias

· Fils à Papa(s), Beaugrand

· Fallait le dire, Emma

· L’arnaque des nouveaux pères, Jourdain et Daudin, 2024

· The Second Shift, Hochschild et Machung, 1989

· Espaces et temps de la « production d’enfants », Boulet, 2020

· Les étudiant-e-s parents, Gaide, 2020

· Qui lave le linge sale de la famille ?, de Stambolis-Ruhstorfer et Gross, 2021

· Être en couple gay, Courduriès, 2019

· RFAS 2025-3 : “Les encadrements de la paternité”

· L’art de ne pas balayer derrière sa porte, Carpentier-Goffre, 2022

· Les « nouveaux pères » trop pépères, Le Monde, 2024

· Les chiffres-clés de l’inégalité en France et dans le monde, Oxfam

· MHB, liste des entreprises qui participent au financement des GPA

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