One of the main elements of adoptive fatherhood and filiation is, no doubt, what from the psycho?social field is known as coupling. At present, adoption is, for the most part in our country, international adoption. Therefore, in contrast with what happens in the cases of national adoption, the meeting and the progressive coupling between the child and the family take place in a strange environment, unknown, and also among strangers. In addition, in each country of origin there is a different way of proceeding, of approaching these first moments. Due to this fact, the existing circumstances surrounding the coupling of a family are in fact completely different for each case. The lack of an agreed criterion among the very same professionals responsible for the various adoption processes, national as well as international, also leads to a great diversity of actions and attitudes.