Derecho de los hijos adoptados a conocer sobre su origen y vínculo familiar

Abstract

The following research article seeks to analyze the right of adopted children and adolescents to know about their origin and family bond, which is currently regulated by Law 1098 of 2006 Code of Childhood and Adolescence, where all documents and administrative or judicial proceedings specific to the adoption process are reserved for the term of twenty (20) years from the execution of the judicial decision. In this order of ideas, he also tells us that it is the adoptive parents who will judge the moment and the ideal conditions in which it is not unfavorable for the child and adolescent, to know about their origin and family bond, without prejudice to the reservation of which it is stipulated in the aforementioned law. That is why it is proposed in this research, if in fact the adoptive parents are the best people to judge the right moment for the adopted child to have knowledge of their origin and family bond, analyzing which are the advantages and disadvantages of the minor having knowledge , taking into account that this means accepting that the child has a different origin and has a previous history linked to his life and his identity.