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This article analyzes from an ethnographic perspective the different dimensions of social life that cross the existence and the function of residential care institutions (hogares convivenciales). This kind of spaces gives shape to devices that eventually can promote the adoption of children in the conurbano bonaerense, Argentina. This article argues that a value rationality predominates, associated with the spheres where personal and affective relationships are the main focus. This situation promote the existence of an alternative normative order that structures social relations and give shape of a different type of adoption of children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article we analyze the tensions between agents in the field of institutions for the protection of children when the goal is to provide children a "proper family environment" and for that they resort to adoption. From the analysis of cases studied in our fieldwork in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires (Argentina), we discuss the forms of the trajectories of children towards adoption and the social interactions between institutional agents and the birth families, because focusing on the areas of negotiation and/or open confrontation in them it is possible to identify the tactics deployed by the families of the children in order to contest the scope of intervention and to build for themselves a morally acceptable place. This perspective, we understand, may complexify the analysis of the dynamics of state intervention on children and their families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]