ABSTRACT
The child explorer can live on beyond childhood, it is she who in secret watches over the creativity of the scientist. Faced with the inconceivable question of her origin, the child is first and foremost an assiduous researcher. Often even, the child imagines for himself a filiation other than that of his parents. Some individuals, even after the birth of their child, produced using their own gametes, continue to experience themselves as infertile parents. A child could be conceived in an autologous way within a homosexual couple, using sexual stem cells, or according to research using somatic stem cells that have been turned into gametes, thus allowing fertilisation within the couple. As though the child were defined solely by the technologies that had made him possible; technologies that by the same stroke become a snare of causality, a generalised explanation for everything that befalls him or everything that he does.
