Donna Supitilov Skora, the founder of Surrogate Grandparents, has new ideas that are redefining the Idea of families. An Interview with Donna Supitilov Skora – The Art of Weaving Families What is the Tapestry of the New American Family? The Family was originally defined as the group of people who have a degree of kinship with each other and live in the same house forming a home. A family is considered an institution responsible for promoting the education of children and influencing their behavior in the social environment. The role of the family in the development of everyone is of fundamental importance. It is within the family that the moral and social values that serve as the basis for the process of socialization of the child, as well as the traditions and customs perpetuated through generations, are transmitted. It is true that the family is undoubtedly the institution and the oldest human grouping, since every human being, every individual is born because of the family and, as a rule, in the sphere of the family, associating with its other members. The idea of what is becoming a family, its characteristics, its formation, is an extremely volatile and changeable concept in time, always following the evolution of social ideals, scientific discoveries, and customs of society. It is impossible to construct a solid and fixed idea of what the family is, and what its characteristics are. We are living in a moment of social and legal development on the subject, where the concept of what becomes a family is being expanded.  Just looking around, we see how the original definition of the term “Family” is reductionist and anachronistic, not reflecting the reality in which we live in these changing times. The world is dynamic, diverse and comprehensive, and the definition of the word...

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