REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPACT OF RACISM ON INTERRACIAL ADOPTIONS
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From the observation of psychosocial professional practice in the judicial sphere, listening to reports of adopters and audiovisual scenes, we discuss the processes of interracial adoption. Most applicants for adoption are white and seek daughters similar to their skin tone, neglecting the color/race of most children and adolescents institutionally welcomed and available for adoption in Brazil, who are black and brown. Although adoption is a right of children and adolescents to live in an affectionate family – in the impossibility of returning to their families of origin – it is the adopters who choose the racial and phenotypic characteristics of their affiliation, usually without discussions about this in the groups of adoption. To problematize the privilege of choice of who wants to adopt, as something that precedes the right of these infants to have a family, and to reflect on the impact of whiteness in interracial adoptions is the objective of this writing
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