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Abstract

The profound juridical and cultural transformations undergone by the institution family in our era pose grandparents faced with new challenges and new tasks. If the role of wise men went incidental, from a financial point of view grandparents are now a considerable resource that can support so important to the economy of a family clan. Moreover, the conditions for greater prosperity and the elongation of the average provide grandparents capacity of care, labor and assistance to be given to children and grandchildren. The author focuses on the role of grandparents in the adoptive family by showing how important is their involvement in the paths of expectation in order to make themselves protagonists of adoptive choice. The article refers to the experiences of national training of operators of international adoptions carried out by the Istituto degli Innocenti in Florence.