“…The twentieth century produced numerous processes of forced adoptions, including the Australian case known as the Stolen Generation (Murphy, 2011), the case of Guatemala (Posocco, 2011;Rotabi, 2014), Spain's "stolen babies" (Marre, 2009;San Román and Rotabi, 2019), and Ireland's "Magdalene Laundries" (McCarthy, 1996). In Latin America-especially the Southern Cone-a critical relationship exists between child appropriations, "irregular adoptive practices," 1 and dictatorial regimes (Cardarello, 2009;Regueiro, 2013;Villalta, 2010;Villalta and Gesteira, 2019). The political-ideological schemes of the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s counted among their objectives the discipline of family and youth (Filc, 1997).…”