ADOPCIONES, FAMILIAS, INFANCIAS ADOPTIONS, FAMILIES, CHILDHOODS www.afin.org.es I+D: MICIN CSO2009-14763C03-01 subprograma SOCI Monitoring Parents: science, evidence, experts and the new parenting culture - University of Kent, Sept. 13 th -14 th 2011 Parenting in intercountry adoption The role of “expert knowledge” in creating transnational/transracial adoptive families Beatriz San Román Diana Marre Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
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Monitoring Parents: science, evidence, experts and the new parenting culture University of Kent, Sept. 13th -14th 2011
2004: Catalans were the 16% of Spanish’s inhabitants but they adopted 31% of children internationally adopted in Spain.
2006: In Catalonia 52% of families that applied for an intercountry adoption were involuntarily childless, 43% had children and only 35% had done some ARTtreatment.
Population, children born and intercountry adoptions in 2004
Monitoring Parents: science, evidence, experts and the new parenting culture University of Kent, Sept. 13th -14th 2011
2004: Catalans were the 16% of Spanish’s inhabitants but they adopted 31% of children internationally adopted in Spain.
2006: In Catalonia 52% of families that applied for an intercountry adoption were involuntarily childless, 43% had children and only 35% had done some ARTtreatment.
Intercountry adoption in Spain and Catalonia (1997-2010)
Transraciality often addressed from the parents’ point of view (“lost of anonymity”, etc.)
“They told us that it was needed to be clear in our minds that our family physiognomy would change forever because of adoption, that we should discuss it between us [she and her husband] and our families, and nothing else”.
“We spent the whole morning in a role play, in small groups, and it was about how we would react if, during their
adolescence, our children became aware they were adopted. It was really Kafkaesque, if you keep in mind that all of them were to be
Chinese girls”.
Monitoring Parents: science, evidence, experts and the new parenting culture University of Kent, Sept. 13th -14th 2011