Adoption: policies for children and youth in Brazil?

Abstract

This academic article aims to discuss the Law 13,509/17, which provides for adoption
and amends the Law 8.069/90 (also known as “Statute of the Children and the Adolescents”). My goal is to understand the meanings associated with adoption, parental exercise, families, justice practices and public policies (related to the referred Law’s promulgation). How can an adoptive filiation be considered a public policy for children? May the time reduction of a process be connected to the idea of an adoption as a solution for children’s issues in a protective way, as these ones are away from their families of origin? This piece aims to analyze these issues according to the Law’s perspective, as well as through public debates on the subject, disclosed by professionals related to the Justice of Childhood and Youth (sources: magazines, newspapers and other media).