Los silencios de la adopción en España

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse why more than ten years after transnational adoption began in Spain, the “silences” that impede to talk about the adoption triad ‒biological and adoptive families and adopted children‒, which is in fact about multimothering, infringe the rights of adoptees. A way to this analysis is looking at certain forms of symbolic and euphemistic violence towards women who delay motherhood and have to go for assisted reproduction and/or international adoption. A violence that is also exercised on women who give or who are asked to give their children because their “inadequacy” for motherhood, through a hegemonic discourse of silence.