Why do we want children of our own in the first place? Do we get to decide which children we have and which we don't? Is it too late to have children? And which technologies are we allowed to use on the way to having a child of our dreams? In the past, fate decided whether we had children and which children we had. Today it is increasingly controllable. Philosopher Barbara Bleisch and legal scholar Andrea Büchler explore the extent of our autonomy in reproduction and the responsibility that this new-found freedom entails - for future mothers and fathers, for our children, but also for us as a society.