Parentalidade na adoção de crianças maiores: uma metassíntese

Abstract

Adoption is a way that enables the child/adolescent to have a family, as well as for the family a possibility of having children and this is entirely linked to the historical and social context that has been shaped over the years, breaking taboos related to this type of affiliation, as well as the opening of possibilities for parenthood, an example of this is homoparenthood and monoparenthood. When it comes to late adoption, it is known that there are many factors involved in the adoption process that impact on the lives of children to be adopted and on the choice of the family that it intends to adopt. In this perspective, the adoption process itself may or may not contribute to the family appropriating the sense of parenting of a larger child. That said, the question arises: what is the role of the adoption process in the construction of parenting of older children? How do children and families deal with this complex process? Based on this, the aim of this study was to investigate the issues surrounding adoption through a systematic review of the literature. More specifically, verify the focus that has been given to the scientific production of the last five years on late adoption. The following data were investigated: Scielo, Pepsic, Capes and Lilacs Theses Portal, using as descriptors: adoption; adoption and child adoption. This is a descriptive-interpretative metasynthesis research in articles on adoption; the research was fragmented into stages for better data exploration: Exploration, Crossing, Refinement, Storage, Description and Analysis; in the exploration, 207 articles were found in total, with the crossing being 166 articles, through the refinement stage was the total of 22 articles that were used in the present work, all the data of the articles were stored and organized by: title, author, magazine, year, state, country and language of origin. Analyzing the data, it was observed that many studies still turn only to the perspective of the family that will receive the child, even though there is an understanding that the child is the subject of greatest interest and has its own perception of the whole process. Keywords: Adotive; late adoption; child adoption.