A escolha de um filho: uma análise da construção social da adoção de crianças e adolescentes

Abstract

This dissertation aims at analyzing the social construction of children¿s and teenagers¿ adoption in the capitalist sociability. In order to meet the proposed objective, the dialectical historical materialism presented itself as capable of surpassing the phenomenon¿s singularity, enabling a complete interpretation of the study object, questioning it from all aspects and angles. In this path, the bibliographical research theoretically subsidized the study, from the reflections of the main work that establish relation with the theme and the categories to be discussed: State, Social Politics, Family and Adoption. The documentary research was developed from the analysis of statistical reports of continuous flows made available by the National Justice Council about adoption and lawsuits of the people who were interested in adopting through the studied district. The documentary research also enabled raising data about these applicants who were later interviewed, presentially and remotely, through a platform. The methodology enabled reflections upon cultural, economic, social and historical dimensions that influence the adoption, showing that these could not be left out from the analysis of the existing contradictions in the class society. The study concluded that, although the adoption¿s candidates constitute important actors for the family interaction of children and teenagers, in the capitalist sociability it is ingrained in materialistic and merchandising relations, which produces/reproduces the offer of poor children and teenagers for adoption because it covers exploitation and inequality relations that constitute their mechanism preventing original families to keep their children. Moreover, this sociability disseminates a family, body, habits and customs pattern, which makes children and teenagers with certain profiles to not be adopted. In these procedures, the applicants become reproduction instruments of the dominant class ideology, favoring the maintenance of capitalistic premises