The late adoption of child is a complex process that raises ambiguous feeling, such as love, mistrust, prejudice, insecurity, fear, frustration and full realization. The aim of this work is to investigate implications involved in process of late adoption, in relation to the adoption parents and to the adoption children. The data saved for the elaboration of the research has been collected with the participation of three adopting mothers, three adopting fathers, threes adopting children in the state of Rio de Janeiro, between 2009 and 2010. The adopted children were between 6 and 14 years old at the time of their adoption. Semi structured interviews with the mothers, fathers and children were held, not existing any parental relationships among the participants. Starting from the technique used to analyze the contents the contents of the research, the data was grouped into 5 categories, so named: 1) the parent s motivation to adopt; 2) The prejudice in adoption; 3) the legal process; 4) the importance of the groups to the adoption; 5) the child in the new family. It has been found that I all the adoption cases the most frequent motivation was the sterility of one member of the couple. At the beginning all wanted to adopt a newborn baby and, as the process went by, due to the difficulty to find a child who would meet that profile, then chose to adopt older children the hope for the full realization that involves the first moments in the search for adoption suffers an impact that, before the difficulties that arise and also before the real child many times frustrates the initial expectation. Most of the interviewees declared that they had received the support of the whole family by the time of their decision to adopt a child. Although, there was some prejudice from people in their social circle. The conclusion, for the adoption fathers and mothers as well as the adopted children, was that the establishment of the family bonds does not occur immediately. It s a long way to establish a safe future for that relationship. Not forgetting though the past of the child, that can not be ignored. The truth is the foundation above all and children will be raised. The support groups work as facilitators for the construction of that relationship.