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Family and love in times of globalisation: The grandparents in Thessaloniki and their grandson in Cambridge talk to each other every evening - via Skype. An American woman and her Swiss husband are annoyed by high telephone bills and travel costs. A European couple conceives with the help of an Indian surrogate mother. New forms of intimacy, love and family are the focus of the new book by Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim and Ulrich Beck. The authors of the bestseller "Das ganz normale Chaos der Liebe" examine in their new positive polemic all kinds of long-distance relationships, of marriages linking continents and cultures, skype-supported love relationships, chatroom tragedies, globalized maids, prostitutes from Sri Lanka, Indian surrogate mothers, Ethiopian migrant workers (and many more). Her finding: Families are not.