Abstract
This paper consists in an attempt of synthesis in which the author, after a 35-year-long career, updates what stays the same and what changes in the field of adoption. In the changes, there are the scarcity of adoptable children who do not have special needs; in what is growing, there is the States will of control upon the process and the coming of adopted children which are “made-to-measure” for non-traditional families. What stays the same is the processes and selection criteria for candidates-parents; the psychological experience of the adopted child, who have to integrate the trauma of their life, reconstruct themselves with an acceptable history, lean their identity against their double settling and be welcome without excessive hopes.
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