After Adoption: Direct Contact and Relationships

by Carole Smith and Janette Logan

Book Overview

Few children nowadays are placed for adoption with no form of contact planned with birth relatives and it has become common professional practice to advocate direct rather than indirect contact. Practice has outstripped evidence in this respect and not enough is known about how contact arrangements actually work out, particularly for older children adopted from state care. Such children have often experienced neglect, and sometimes abuse, and have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415282217
• ISBN13: 9780415282215
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"