The experience of adoption in a biographical narration of adoptive parents
Journal Title: Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy - Year 2015, Vol 17, Issue 1
Abstract
The aim of the study was the analysis of key motives for adoption in the context of life experiences of childlesscouples. This article covers the selected aspects of the qualitative analysis of the biographical narrationsobtained during the narration interviews conducted with Polish and French adoptive parents. Thestudy was conducted using the biographical method.The choice of adoptive parenthood depends on achieving inner readiness to undertake an existential challenge.In general, this challenge involves acceptance of oneself and one’s spouse in the context of infertilityas well as a new dimension of parenthood.The interpretative and cognitive character of biographical narration gains a particular meaning in the caseof significant events and experiences identified by the states of loss and pain, as well as of opening to anotherhuman being and presenting them with love. This includes the experience of infertility and adoptionof a child. It is then, when a man facing the key choice between the alternative and often excluding oneanother, “projects” describing himself in the future must opt for one of them. This choice is impossible tomake without constructing a complex biographical narration that facilitates intellectual work through thedifficult experiences and re-construction of oneself.In the diversity and unpredictability of the individual biographical narrations, which are the “projects” ofpersonal autocreation of childless spouses who are oriented to achieve the readiness to adopt a child, aparticularly inspiring cognitive value may be found.
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Arkadiusz Wąsiński
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