Last week we delivered the first part of the interview with the Argentine psychoanalyst María Adela Mondelli, a professional with extensive experience in the field of adoption and mother through adoption.
Today we share with you the second installment, this time we ask María Adela what is adoption.
Enjoy!
María Adela, tell us a little bit what adoption is.
Adoption is the legal institute by which one or two adults in marriage take that child or daughter to that child who is not naturally, that is, that was not begotten by him, her or both.
What is the role of the judicial system in the adoptive act?
The adoption is promoted in the judicial field, by the adult or adults with respect to the boy or girl in a situation of lack of family environment for their growth and healthy development of life. You ask me about the role of the judicial system; Well, I answer that your task is to generate the conditions of possibility for that encounter between the children under your guardianship and the predisposition of the adult or adults to prohibit it, as well as to determine the conditions of adoptability of the child, and the ability of the adult or parents to paternal and / or maternal.
We could conclude, then, that this form of maternity or paternity has a legal dimension.
That's right, since it gives it framework and contention, a social and subjective dimension; and a bodily and desiring dimension. The relationship that in each specific case acquire these dimensions is what determines the ethics of adoption. Not every process that culminates in a legal instance is legitimate for the foundation of a healthy family for its members.
We enter the social vertex of adoption ...
Right. The individual or couple's desire to maternity or paternity in adoption must be realized in society (with others) through relationships marked by ethics, because it is between people who are not in equal conditions, and culminate in a legal process (within the framework of the law). This fundamentally differentiates the adoptive mother / fatherhood in relation to the biological mother / fatherhood, but also in relation to the illegal and illegitimate appropriation of a child in a context such as that of Argentina, where roads are becoming increasingly difficult for reach adoption in a reasonable time, when there are people who have been 5, and up to 10 years, waiting.
