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Fluid Family.

Just as social changes accumulated over generations bring about evolutionary development, technological currents have a massive impact on shaping bigger social demonstrations. Although causation is only sometimes the right way to connect the dots, a heavy influence can't go mistaken. Yes, the topic is families with same-sex parents, the impression of technology in this and the changes in social order it aspires to bring.

At the outset, the massive success of the gender fluid theory and its recognition is significant to feminist movements. One that brought under scanner a systematic suppression of gender under various social and economic pretexts. Its far-reaching consequences have been the question of the gender binary, mainly in the social context. This liberating idea of multiple genders asks the next obvious question: relationships and family. For a simplification, let's look at families with same-sex parents, what makes them possible and what concerns them.

Here comes the idea of joint bearing. Childbearing in nature was a complete process limited only to females. Thus with the reproduction mechanism reserved for a single-sex of humans, the necessity of a family asked for two sexes ( the male and female) to come together for a child. Family is not just limited to children as we know it today. And further, technology has made it possible for humans to separate the reproduction process into a sophisticated lab environment. In fact, the ability for sexes to donate gametes breaks the earlier convention, which mandated the gamete donors to be the child's parents. This independence empowers families to form that can't necessarily bear a child. Thus, these technological changes have played a significant role in making fluid families.

However, the process of a family doesn't end with the birth of a child. The subsequent rearing is the most essential part of it. Child psychology has reported that the response to a child varies from the perspective of a mother and father. Now when these lines begin to blur, how do we ensure that these evolutionary behavioural patterns are preserved in the new age families. This again mandates the rearing process to go independent of the family and into society. The lack of a certain emotion with the parents can be compensated by members of the immediate communities.

This brings extended families' perspectives and relevance in the upcoming era. And the impact of technology in making it happen. But the hypothesis of a joint bearing - collective rearing is getting truer daily. What could be its evolutionary impacts?

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