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Once upon a time, not all that long ago in fact, sex was the only way to have a child, and if people couldn't have a child for some reason, they either went without or looked at adoption. These days, with the help of technology, it's possible to have that child using donated eggs or sperm, or with the help of a surrogate mother.
This section talks about assisted reproduction, the federal ''[https://canlii.ca/t/7vzj Assisted Human Reproduction Act]'' and the rules in the provincial ''[[Family Law Act]]'' about determining who is a parent when a child has been conceived through assisted reproduction.
==Introduction==
Assisted reproduction relies on the assistance of other people to conceive a child. It is necessary when:
#a single person wants to have a child without someone else being a parent of that child;
#the people involved in an opposite-sex relationship are infertile or a woman is unable to carry a baby to term;
#the people involved in a same-sex relationship want to have a child, and they want the child to share the genetic heritage of at least one of them; or,