Adoção e paternidade na perspectiva de homens que adotaram seus fillhos

Abstract

Adoption is one way of inserting children and adolescents in substitute families where they have become son or daughter of this family. Although there has been an increase in the number of researches on adoption and paternity, the adoption adoptive fatherhood remains unexplored. In order to contribute to reducing this gap, this study aimed to understand the meanings determined by men who adopted their children to adoption and parenthood. We sought to understand the motivations that led these men to adopt; their perceptions of the legal adoption process and the preparation period; the main difficulties in the initial period of living with the child (ren); and your perceptions about your fatherhood. To this end, an analysis of eight reports published on institutional websites and books of men who became parents through adoption was carried out. The reasons that led these men to resort to adoption were: infertility; the couple's desire to adopt; to satisfy the wife's desire to have children, previous coexistence with a child, and to satisfy the wife's desire to adopt. In the perception of these men, the adoption process is bureaucratic and slow, but the period of preparation is important for the experience of this process and the exercise of parenting. The main difficulties faced during the initial period of living with the children are related to the children's emotional and behavioral factors. For these men, a paternal condition is named by the affective bond; and they perceive themselves as good parents and describe having a good level of involvement with their children.