This is an English summary of a report commissioned by the French National Assembly which investigated the changing nature of the family and the subsequent need to change family law in order to protect children's rights. Of its 100 proposals, the commission concluded that marriage should be reserved for heterosexual couples, that adoption by single parents or same sex couples is a breach of children's rights, that medically assisted reproduction should be limited to certain couples, that surrogate motherhood should remain illegal and that children born from anonymous mothers should be allowed to know the identity of their mother when they reach their majority.