Fugindo da regra, entrando na lei: famílias que adotam no juizado da infância da cidade de Fortaleza

Abstract

This article aims at identifying the motivations on the part of citizens that have opted to adopt though the State, since regularity statistics from the national adoptive universe points to a preference that is directed towards a choice outside it. The citizens surveyed in this study belong to a higher socioeconomic and educational stratum in comparison to the average levei of the population of Fortaleza, in addition they are members of some religious community or families that reflect their link to a bourgeois nuclear family model.