Xistential Experience of Women with Regard to Challenges in Attempting Adoption

Motherhood, the beautiful sense of affection and having children is the symbol of this emotional necessity. The essential feeling of being a mother to a child in its natural and biological form is not possible in some cases, however, individuals could fulfill this issue to the fullest extent through adopting nonbiological children. Although with high statistics of infertility amongst Iranian households, the belief of being capable of becoming a mother without giving birth to a child and acceptance of a non-biological child is yet unfulfilled. The main issue of this research is examining the challenges of women in the process of adoption. Hence by adopting a qualitative approach and by interviewing 28 women thoroughly who had the experience of having a nonbiological child with analyzing the content of the interviews, challenges of adoption is extracted and underpinned. "Social, Cultural, and Religious Perspective", "Legal, Religious, and familial Structure", and "Selective, Responsible, and Conscious Function" are recognized and represented as the most important challenges in attempts of adopting a nonbiological child. The interior content extracted of these issues is entitled "Individual and Social Perspective arising from Institutionalized Traditional Values and Beliefs towards Stepchildren" which in fact this issue sets the scene for challenges that arise concerning adopting a nonbiological child.