The building of parental bonds: adoption and assisted reproduction in Chile

Rezumat

This article aims to analyze the building of bonds between parents and children in Chile. In keeping with the same, the cultural elements upon which mothers and fathers who have adopted children or had children using assisted reproduction techniques base their parenthood relationships are identified. People who have required assistance for their reproductive process have had to make implicit multiples underlying parental relations explicit. The analysis of parents? narratives enables identification of the following cultural elements: 1) Blood, biology and genetics, 2) care, love and time, 3) destiny, God and the unexplainable and 4) sensory aspects or relationships between bodies. The article attempts to bring the analysis of parenthood relations closer to the real experiences of people by accounting for creativity deployed in their desire to establish their relationships.