Adoção tardia e o longo caminho das crianças institucionalizadas: um diagnóstico da realidade

Abstract

The present work will seek to develop an analysis regarding the adoption of older children in the Brazilian Legal System, with a diagnosis of the main elements that involve the adoption processes, as well as the obstacles that present to the effective placement of children and adolescents in families substitutes. Currently in Brazil, for each child and adolescent available for adoption with the National Registry of Adoption (CNA), there are at least five families willing to welcome them into their family breasts and to take them as their children. However, the incompatibility between the dreamed child and the available child, as well as the bureaucracy and the operational obstacles that surround the adoption processes, mean that these institutionalized minors end up losing the chance of being integrated into a surrogate family, being obliged to tread their way toward long and lonely years in foster care and foster care programs. Thus, time is fundamental in the search of children and adolescents for a family that receives them as children, due to the innumerable prejudices, myths and insecurities that involve the adoption of older children known as late adoptions. Thus, because age is a profile exclusion factor, adoption processes need to be developed quickly and efficiently, since, day after day, as they grow up, adoption becomes more distant for children and adolescents who are institutionalized in shelters in Brazil.