ESTUDIO DE LA ADOPCION DE MENORES POR PARTE DE MUJERES SOLTERAS EN LA CIUDAD DE BARRANQUILLA BRENDA LIZ DÍAZ SUAZMAN RAMIRO COTES ROBLES Abogado Asesor Dra Luz Miriam Reyes CORPORACION UNIVERSITARIA DE LA COSTA FACULTAD DE DERECHO BARRANQUILLA 2007 ABSTRACT The purpose of the adoption is the establishment of a true family like the one that exists among the united ones for knots of blood, with all the rights and duties that it shares it, since by virtue of the adoption the adoptante puts under an obligation to take care and to attend the adoptive son, to educate him, to support him, to love him and to provide it of all the necessary conditions so that it grows in atmosphere of well-being, affection and solidarity. (you sentence C 562 of 1995, C 477-1999 Constitutional Court) The general objective of this investigation was to determine the importance that has the study of the process of single women's adoption in the city of Barranquilla. The method used in this investigation is the deductive method that begins for the study of a global reality which is the adoption, with the purpose of arriving to conclusions and premises of particular character as it is the case of the adoption of smaller on the part of the single women in the city of Barranquilla, keeping at the moment in mind the different aspects and the effective legislation for this end, as well as the jurisprudence applied in this field that although it is not believed day by day it increases in number and it has been little studied. In conclusion one can say that at the moment the adoption is an Institution of the Right of Family, been founded in an act of will of the adoptante and that, by means of a sentence, believe a relationship paternal assimilated filiar, in its effects, to the legitimate or matrimonial filiation. The problem of the childhood in Colombia is a matter of capital importance, at the present time that the improvement of the quality of life of the future generations is not limited, but rather he/she should become a challenge of the present like indispensable budget so that it exists real and affectively the so yearned social justice. KEY WORDS: Adoption, smaller, Adoptabilidad, Family, Adoptante, single Women, Abandonment, Poverty, Abuse, Law of Childhood and Adolescence, ICBF, Judge, Defender of Family, Application, Administrative Stage, Jurisdictional Stage.