The present study aimed at analyzing the challenges and difficulties experienced by female couples to materialize biological motherhood, with the support of new reproductive technologies. The motivations to use semen from anonymous donors, as well as the reasons to choose for certain characteristics in the referred donors were discussed. Nine women who live with other women and who had jointly planned motherhood were interviewed. The concretion of motherhood through biological bonds appeared as a priority to interviewed women, reproducing, in some ways, an idealized model of family. However, motherhood performed alongside other woman resulted in a controversial and disturbing family configuration, once homoparenthood of any kind subverts consolidated notions of kinship. When homoparenthood is consolidated through new reproductive technologies it necessarily constitutes something innovative.
homossexuality; heteronormativity; family relations; reproductive techniques