When disability and homoparenting meet: the adoption of children with disability by same sex couples

The present theoretical essay is based on six reports concerning same-sex couples and gay and lesbian people in order to interconnect homoparenting and the adoption of children with disabilities, through the lenses of human and social sciences in public health. The reports were interpreted in light of studies on same-sex adoption and the adoption of children with disabilities. Feminist approaches related to care and disability were also included in the interpretative perspective, operating as expressive webs of grammars of ableism. It was found that media approaches endorse the right to family formation and the adoption of children with disabilities by homoparental families, but with little critical depth on the category of disability and without highlighting support for the adoption of all adoptee profiles. Moreover, the intersections between homophobia and ableism increase discriminatory and oppressive logics, with the union of social groups considered to be "undesirable" representing a strategy of governmentality that reveals the complexity of grammars of ableism, applied to the sexual and reproductive rights of LGBTQIA+ adopters and to the fundamental rights of children and adolescents with disabilities who are available for adoption.

Grammars of ableism: dialogues in the folds between disability, gender, childhood, and adolescence

Abstract In this theoretical essay, we assume ableism as a grammar that sustains several duplicities that hierarchize and discriminate reputed dissident corporalities. We maintain this argument based on the violation of rights to health and life of disabled people, travestis, trans and intersex people, and children and adolescents, in practices of surveillance and correction, which sustain health and education institutions, and Language as the central point of such enabling.

Grammars of ableism: dialogues in the folds between disability, gender, childhood, and adolescence

In this theoretical essay, we assume ableism as a grammar that sustains several duplicities that hierarchize and discriminate reputed dissident corporalities. We maintain this argument based on the violation of rights to health and life of disabled people, travestis, trans and intersex people, and children and adolescents, in practices of surveillance and correction, which sustain health and education institutions, and Language as the central point of such enabling.

[Challenges to intersectorality in the care of children with disabilities from the perspective of education professionals]

This paper identifies and discusses factors that hinder interprofessional and intersectoral articulation, as well as evaluates the main regulations on the rights of children and persons with disabilities and scientific literature on intersectoriality A qualitative and applied research was conducted by means of a questionnaire applied online to education professionals who care for children with disabilities, in the municipality of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. The open answers of the questionnaire were analyzed from a constructionist perspective, based on the production of polyphonic meanings. The norms contradict intersectoriality by reinforcing sectoriality, and their guidelines do not present the material dimension of the political processes, constituting a field of implications for inclusion practices. It identified three pillars that limit intersectoriality: individual and collective work overload; difficulty in engaging other actors in the network; limited knowledge to meet the demands received. The way these aspects were raised expresses barriers to access and operationalization of the Network of Care for Persons with Disabilities (RCPD) and reiterates contradictions produced by the normative guidelines that regulate work. e reduction of hospital stay, which is so impactful on the functional condition of the elderly.