Diana Therese M. Veloso, Ph.D.

FAMIPOP
De La Salle University
1. Children raised by lesbian, gay, bisexual, or
transgender parents are likely to grow up gay,
lesbian, bisexual, or transgender themselves.
2. Children raised by lesbian, gay, bisexual, or
transgender parents will always be subjected to
harassment or teasing by their peers.
3. Children raised in an LGBT relationship grow up
in an “immoral” environment.
4. Children raised in an LGBT household will
develop social or developmental problems.
 Process in which a parent or caregiver
assumes parenting and rearing of another
person (usually a child) from that person’s
biological or legal parents
◦ Transfer of legal rights and responsibilities to
adoptive parent
 Formal Adoption  Informal Adoption
◦ Domestic adoption vs. ◦ Raising child/ren of
international adoption
others (e.g. relatives,
◦ Open vs. closed adoption
 Contact vs. no contact with fictive kin, neighbors)
biological parents as an internal
◦ Regular adoption vs. arrangement
Family adoption ◦ Tradeoff of informal
 Regular adoption: handled
by the Department of
arrangements: legal
Social Welfare and and immigration
Development (DSWD) problems
 Family adoption: Birth
parents voluntarily give up
a child to be raised by the
relative (only up to third
degree of consanguinity)
 Grief over loss of
relationship with birth
parents and/or cultural
and family connections
 Loss of access to
important medical or
genetic family histories
 Self-esteem and identity
development issues
◦ May be accompanied by
guilt feelings (e.g. fear of
betraying adoptive family
for being curious about
birth parents)
 Teasing or bullying in
school; prying/tactless
outsiders
 Different coping
mechanisms of adopted
children
◦ NOT every adopted child
will express interest in
learning about his/her
birth family history
◦ Adoption as a “done deal”
◦ Adopted = being wanted
 BOTTOM LINE:
◦ Cultural differences in
views on adoption
◦ Crucial role of support
system for adopted
children and their parents