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This article examines the recent laws enacted in Quebec on the institution of civil union, the establishment of new rules of filiation (2002) and assisted procreation (2009). These laws, which were promulgated with a concern to counter any apparent “separate equality ,” are a clumsy sort of release from an excessive and paradoxical biologisation of procreation. The article questions the possibility that, by taking matters beyond the overlapping of “parentage ” by “parentality ” often at work in everyday language and works in human sciences, a socio-anthropological way of thinking may be working to accommodate legal recognition that a child may have more than two parents.