ADOÇÃO NO BRASIL: O DIÁLOGO ENTRE O ADOTANTE E A LEGISLAÇÃO

Abstract

It is well known that many children and adolescents live in a situation of abandonment or are even orphans. However, other reasons such as lack of financial and psychological conditions and even mistreatment are situations that take away the role of biological father, and, in these cases, the State acts with protection and guarantee tools through the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA), which encourages and welcomes them to shelters, registering these vulnerable children in the national system for adoption. However, the real situation is that many children and adolescents are unable to be adopted, although the pool of candidates interested in adoption is extensive, this is due to the fact that adopters have predilections that differ from the reality of the majority of children available. The careful selection desired by the adopter further aggravates the delay in processing the process. Adoption, like other legal institutes, has a procedural process, in order to verify whether the real conditions of the adopters meet the best interests of the child, after proven by the magistrate, through essentially subjective criteria. I focus on the objective of verifying the main sources of information that dealt with the analysis of adoption in Brazil. With this guide, the research will condense a descriptive and exploratory study. The methodological analysis in which the work will be developed is of a qualitative nature, with in-depth investigation into the current legislation in force in the country. One obstacle to face is that at the adoption center, adopters look for children with certain specific characteristics, which makes adoption selective and slow