La adopción internacional en el Ecuador y su afectación al interés superior del menor.

Abstract

Adoption is a process that seeks to offer a better lifestyle -in all aspects- to the minor who, due to various adverse circumstances, is not under the guardianship and care of their parents, the same ones who are living in the different shelters and foster homes that are intended to give them shelter during the time it takes to create an affective bond with the prospective adopters and the adoption process itself; however, the duration of the procedure and the different procedures concerning its achievement contribute to its losing its main notion, leaving its objective aside, becoming a truly cumbersome procedure for both parties: both for the minor waiting to be adopted as for the adoptive parents, being affected the constitutional principle of superior interest of the minor; This is why it is necessary to promote a regulatory reform of the adoption process that guarantees the real fulfillment of its objectives in favor of the child who will be assigned to a new family that will contribute to their healthy and effective growth and development as a person.