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Calmly, with microscopic precision and unrelenting scepticism, the author explores how modern Western societies have fused new reproductive technologies with the concept of the bourgeois family that emerged at the same time as embryology: after 1770. This is why Making Children is so exceptional, because it combines the history of biological knowledge of conception with the history of the modern family and feelings at the turn of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The places of reproductive action are depicted only from the perspective of double historicity: clinics, sperm banks, websites, surrogate agencies. Andreas Bernard has travelled everywhere where technology is creating families. He talked to people, visited laboratories, and read statistics. His discovery is not the disintegration of all values, but the revival of the burger model of father-mother-child, which appeared at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is now fading away in a childless society.