Mulheres que entregam seus filhos em adoção: cuidado ou abandono?

Abstract

This work focuses on discussing the reality of women who give their children up for adoption, having as a entral question to problematize this gesture as a gesture of care or abandonment. The new culture of adoption moves towards a new relationship between biological families and adoptive families when it recognizes the importance of source data for the formation of the adoptive child's subjectivity. The figure of the donor mother gains visibility in the adoption scenario, historically presented as a “denatured mother”, which points to the need to better contextualize this gesture of delivery, in the sense of expanding our ability to understand it. We present a small contribution to this investigation, gathering existing ideas and information on the subject and adding new questions about this gesture of surrender, considering its psychological, historical and cultural aspects.