ABSTRACT
The fact that the Federal Republic of Germany has the world's lowest birth rate could be interpreted as an indication of the fact that the child is becoming less significant for the biographical design of the adult role in this society. No aspect of the later phases of the adoption history is expressed with such linguistic uniformity as the desire of the adoptive parents for a child of their own. The key statement in almost all adoption histories is: We wanted a child. Free of altruistic exaggerations, which are probably also generally alien to birth parents in society, adoption is utilized from a marriage and egocentric perspective. After medical confirmation of the improbability or—less frequently—impossibility of becoming birth parents, the trajectory of denormalization reaches a point of transformation. The temporal development of the biographical "denormalization" begins with suspicions that initially are merely confirmed by the passing of time.
