Famílias (in)visíveis?: a realidade de famílias homoafetivas com filhos/as adotivos/as na cidade do Natal/RN

Abstract

The present work was focused on analyzing the performance of homoparenthood through the adoption, in the city of Natal/RN, considering for historical purposes clipping the years 2009 to 2012. This research aimed to seize and analyze the experience of exercising homoparenthood via adoption in the already said city and identify possible difficulties in the adoption process and daily life of the families surveyed, seeking also to analyze the process of social visibility, inclusion and family and community life of homo-affective family with children / the adoptive / as, especially in within the family, work and formal education / the kids / the. Following a qualitative approach, we used as a strategy for obtaining and building data, interviews with 04 families who realized Homoaffectives adoption in the city of Natal / RN, in a period of time well stablished. The interviews were compounds by a list of questions that sought to contemplate the adoption process, the difficulties / biases in the adoption process, experience as parents / mothers gays / lesbians and the rights of LGBT people in Brazil. The choice for the interview was due to the possibility of rapprochement with the daily lives of these families, in an attempt to identify difficulties and possibilities in homoparental exercise. The questioning of these themes in the interviews and systematized and analyzed responses reveal trends: statement that the choice to adopt as a means of family formation was due to the existence of a prior desire to be father and mother; full support of / family, both in relation to adoption, and in relation to sexual orientation; the assertion of the absence of any kind of difficulty and / or prejudice during the adoption processes and daily activities, both at work and in family and school / the kids / the while, paradoxically, some narratives have signaled clear situations of prejudice and discrimination, whether racial-ethnic or sexual orientation; non-participation and withdrawal from social movements and LGBT movements.