Category: Adoption

21/02/2016 family dissolution | family pattern | female sexuality | human-rights | ideal family | Isabela França | Maria Rita Kehl | Normal family | Nuclear family | tentacular family Feitosa-Santana

In Defense of the Tentacular Family

Today’s psychoanalysts make a mistake that Freud would not have made if he were alive. Issues such as fratricidal rivalry and incest interdiction are not consequences of a nuclear family structure, that is, monogamous, patriarchal, endogamous. These questions are biological, evolutionary in the strict sense of the word. But despite these analytical errors, the article […]

17/03/2015 Immigration and Deportation | Immigration Dreams | US Immigration Feitosa-Santana

Who is Dayani Cristal?

Following a team of dedicated staff from the Pima County Morgue in Arizona, director Marc Silver seeks to answer these questions and give this anonymous man an identity. As the forensic investigation unfolds, Mexican actor and activist Gael Garcia Bernalretraces this man’s steps along the migrant trail in Central America. In an effort to understand what it must […]

17/03/2015 Filipino maid | ilo ilo 1997 | life of a maid | philippines movie | strained relationship Feitosa-Santana

Ilo Ilo (1997)

The Official website gives us the Synopsis: “Set in Singapore, ILO ILO chronicles the relationship between a family of three and their newly arrived Filipino maid, Teresa, who has come like many other Filipino women in search of a better life. The entire family needs to adapt to the presence of this stranger, which further […]

11/08/2013 adoptive parents | age of criminal responsibility | biological need | candelaria massacre | Crianças Abandonadas | dia dos pais | Dia dos Pais Brasil | Famous Foster Parents | Father's Day Brazil | Foster Parent | Reduction of Criminal Age and Racism Feitosa-Santana

Today is Father’s Day in Brazil

  In Brazil, more than 200 thousand children cannot celebrate Father’s Day or Mother’s Day. They are invisible, living in orphanages, and have between 4 and 19 years old with almost zero chance to get a foster parent. Those that are homeless living on streets are quite disturbing. What Brazilians do? They Close the car […]