THE POSSIBILITIES OF SATISFACTION IN ADOPTION

• Autor(a) principal: Poinho Ferreira dos Santos, Natércia
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17040

The objective of the research was to deal with the natureof adoption, comparing and evaluating some aspects of theinteraction between parents and adopted, and parents and biologicalchildren. Twenty four families, twelve with biological, twelvewith adopted children, participated in this study. The adoptedcases constituted 'full' adoption, i.e., all links with the previousfamily were severed and the name of the new family assumed. Parents and children were interviewed and answered a speciallyprepared and validated questionnaire. In the majority of the cases,the null hypothesis was not rejected, and no significant differencesin the interaction between adoptive and biological parents andtheir children were found. More frequently, a difference was foundbetween father-child and mother-child interaction independent ofthe child being adopted or biological. While one cannot loose sightof the reduced generalizability of the present study, the consistencyof the results suggests that if the adoption process is carried outappropriately, the possibility for parents and adopted children tobe happy with each other can be the same as for parents andbiological children.