SUMMARY

1. The structural and functional transformations of the family, medically assisted procreation and the lack of answers from the law - 2. The uncertain underlying philosophy of law n. 40 of 2004 - 3. The fall of the ban on heterologous medically assisted procreation in the thought of the Constitutional Court - 4. The critical issues raised by the constitutional sentence in the legislation and the new Guidelines. Their insufficiency - 5. The subsequent legislative work and the still open problems - 6. The right of the offspring of heterologous procreation to know their origins.