La connaissance des origines de l'enfant adopté: du « besoin» au « droit» Perspectives anthropologique, sociologique et psychologiques pour une réforme législative
The present Master's Thesis raises questions regarding the necessity for the legislator to make rules that will allow to the adopted persons to know their origins. Many disciplines Iike history, anthropology, sociology and psychology confirm child's conscious and unconscious imprints from their born parents. The need to expand his individuality and to achieve his full blossoming, the adopted person can profit of the identity reference hided by the origin's secret. The judiciary and administrative files access allows to give the necessary indications for the adopted person's definition and achievement. Therefore, the Quebec adoption mechanisms are insufficient to overcome the actual situations which are determined by the essential since the 1924 legislation. The adoption without rupture of the bonds of origins and the legal delegation of parental authority counts among the devices to create, for the one, or to ameliorate, for the other, in waiting of an unconditional raising of the secret of the origins for the adopted person who his coming of age in ail situations.
Secret Confidentiality Adopted person's development Files concerning adoption Origins Secret