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Experiencing Infertility – Social Work Dilemmas in Child Adoption Procedures
Viktorija Bevc
Janja Jerman
Rok Ovsenik
Marija Ovsenik
Sažetak
The research deals with experiencing infertility and its consequences in the adoption
of a child and focuses on infertile couples that have wished to adopt a child and joined a
program preparing them to be foster parents. The results show that most of the infertile
couples experience infertility very much as being different from couples with children as
well as having to cope with the feelings of deep emotional loss resulting from the inability
to reproduce biologically. There is therefore the question whether these facts should
be taken into account by the profession (i.e. social workers) when dealing with child
adoption as, according to most of the respondents of our survey, the process of coming to
terms with infertility and its consequences is an important factor in establishing healthy
family relationships and the child’s identity within the adoptive family. We concluded
from the results of the research that the infertile couples preparation program for adopting
a child carried out by the Society of Adoptive Families »Deteljica«, is a comprehensive
autopoietic social workers’ answer to the needs of participants for a successful adoption
of a child, as it makes it possible to supply these future adoptive parents with the
requisite information and experience and provides support to the entire family upon accepting
a child in its midst, while its fundamental attribute is offering help to couples in
overcoming the traumas resulting from their infertility.
Ključne riječi
infertility; child adoption; social work; Slovenia
Hrčak ID:
28140
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2003.
Posjeta: 1.614 *