Biblioteca Virtual en Salud Enfermería

In Latin American there are countless institutionalized children and recent studies (Weber, 1996; Weber at alii, 1996; Weber, 1999) reveal that those children basic desire, and also their civil right, is to have a family. They repeat that they want to have parents, so they cold are 'sons and daughters' and could occupy an affective space in the world. Bureaucratic difficulties associate to social prejudices hinder the accomplishment of the dream, and these children became nobody' sons and daughters. The institutionalized children reveal a confused and ambivalent speech in relation to their original history, the future expectations for their life, and their legal position in the society. Recently in Brazil began a campaign about the ônecessary adoptionsõ (for every age and race adoptions) speaking much about the need to prepare step parents. However, it is not provided the institutionalized children the consciousness of their own abandon history, which is frequently blended with negligence and family violence. Neither do they know their probabilities of being adopted someday. Based on several researches, the author present a project for intervention: to review their process for family reintegration (the family of origin or origin or a substitute family); to clarify about their background; to discuss with them the real possibilities of living on a family; to provide to the institutionalizes children and adolescents a therapeutic group for psychological support to allow them have a space and time to understand their own story...