Stakeholder Custody Replaces Parenthood

As reproductive technologies and commercial surrogacy spread, family law is drifting from recognizing natural parent–child bonds to allocating custody through contracts and state oversight. Children become 'assembled products' with multiple stakeholders, while parents are treated as provisional custodians subject to revocation. — If the state becomes default arbiter of children produced by marketized reproduction, this reorders rights, family autonomy, and citizenship toward a more totalizing governance model.