Abstract
"Discourse-dependent" families (Galvin 2006), such as adoptive families, are made up of four practices: naming (designating family members by giving them a place in the family), discussing (talking about the family situation), narrating (drawing up an adoption story for the children) and ritualizing (recognizing adoption with celebrations and daily activities). In this article, we analyze the first three practices in Spanish and Chilean single-parent adoptive families. Among the most outstanding results, these adoptive configurations show attitudes and communicative openness practices, in which they tell their children early about the circumstances surrounding their adoption and talk about their mothers and fathers of origin, making efforts to decriminalize and empathize with these images, even adding them as part of their extended families from a pluriparental perspective.
Keywords:
Adoption; single mothers by choice; openness; origins; family practices