Advances In Filiative Matters: Multiparentality and the Relationship with the Rights of Children and Adolescents

Abstract

The family as a legal unit is of the utmost importance and requires legal protection as time progresses. As- sisted human reproduction techniques, marriage and homoparental adoption, among other factors, have been changing the paradigm of the bilateral filiative bond of both motherhood and fatherhood as it is known, is all give rise to plural filiation ties, known as family multiparentality. It is imperative and, at the same time, a challenge for the Chilean legislation to determine the consequences that will derive from these new links in attention to the obligations that are born for the members of the family and that make up the family statute, that is why, in this work, it will address the recognition that has been given to these forms of affiliation in different legislations; how these realities combine with the safeguarding and protection of the rights of children and adolescents and the place that they will have in Chilean legislation, always safe- guarding the best interests of children and adolescents and their right to identity.