Sex/uality Artifacts

Hi my name is Chelsey Dupler. For my second artifact I choose a movie called the kids are all right. This is a film about two lesbians who wanted children so they went to a sperm bank so that they could make this happen. They ended up having two children with the same sperm donor. The children begin to grow interest in who their father is. The children legally have to 18 to go to the sperm bank to get information about their father. Thankfully, the daughter turned 18 pretty soon into the movie. This allowed her to go to the sperm bank and figure out who their father was. After that, she called her father and met up with him and her brother. They all enjoyed learning about each other. This prompted them to hang out more than their mother’s would like. At first when the mother’s found out that the children went to find their father, they weren’t very happy about it. Thankfully, they eventually came around to the idea that the children did want their father in their lives.

This relates to the article called Proper Families? Cultural Expectations and Donor Conception as it states that these children are growing up thinking about their identity, as they do not know every person in which their genes come from. If they come from a family in which they only know one parent because of a sperm donor then these children can be longing to learn more about their identity and their genes. Thankfully, in this movie the children both get to know their father so even though their childhoods were spent with a longing for learning more about their identity and genes, they were able to find it in their father when they met him.

This movie also relates to the article as in the beginning it discusses how it used to be the norm that families would consist of a mother and father and they would only conceive that way. As we know this is not every type of family that America consists of nowadays. So over time, the type of proper family that used to be known in society has changed by allowing same sex couples and single women to be able to conceive a child. This is allowing people to become more accepting of mothers going to a sperm bank and becoming a mom on their own without a man in their lives to help. As in the movie the mother’s go to the sperm bank to get donor sperm to become help them conceive the children that they’ve always wanted. Overall, this movie helps to shed light on the subject and allows society to see that this is becoming more normal for people. Which allows for people to become more accepting of the changes that the old type of “proper family” of a man and woman is not the only type of family that can conceive a child in America today.

The trailer for the movie can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdDSqgZ87fM