Name: JANAÍNA GOMES GARCIA DE MORAES
Publication date: 13/06/2017
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| SANDRO JOSE DA SILVA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| EDINETE MARIA ROSA | External Examiner * |
| JULIO CESAR POMPEU | Internal Examiner * |
| SANDRO JOSE DA SILVA | Advisor * |
Summary: The goal of this thesis is to describe the adoption by homosexuals and transgenders.
The research was developed over a year in the region of Grande Vitória-ES employing
ethnography and life history on adoption as methods. The analytical framework
focuses on the family as a socio-legal unit, access to justice, as well as the constitution
of rights in relation to minority groups. Based on a network of adoptive parents and
adoptees, the main question consists in understanding the strategies that
homosexuals and transgenders use to adopt and why they choose them over others,
including also the social production of the desire to adopt, the narratives on the
construction of the familial setting and on parental and filial love, as well as those daily
rituals that parents, their network of affections, and official adoptive institutions
practice, which create certain contexts favorable to the adoption. It is noteworthy that
despite the adoption challenges, which already impose limitations to heteronormative
couples, there is still a moral impediment regarding homosexual and transgender
parents. This is seen by these subjects as a condition of interaction to the adoption,
that may be official or not, but that meets their social parenthood desire, just as it is the
motive for innovations in the legal field of adoption.
Keywords: Adoption, access to justice, homosexuals, transgenders, Espírito Santo
(state).
