See RoweJane, ‘The voluntaries: adapting to partnership’, Adoption and Fostering93, page 10.
2.
Children Act 1975, section 1.
3.
MunifordGilbert H F, A guide to the Children Act 1975 page 3.
4.
Children Act 1975, section 1 (2).
5.
TodRobert (editor), Social work in adoption, Longmans, 1971, chapters 11, 12, 13.
6.
PictonCliff, ‘Post-adoption support’, Adoption and Fostering88 pp 21–25.
7.
McWhinnieAlexina M, ‘Group counselling with 78 adoptive families’, Case ConferenceVol 14, Nos 11 and 12, 1968.
8.
Post-adoption counselling groups were provided for four years in the British Adoption Project and the need was shown for this to continue. See Lois Raynor, Adoption of non-white children, Allen and Unwin, 1970.
9.
Something of this is done in the United Kingdom through Parent to Parent Information on Adoption Services (PPIAS).
10.
The need for such a counselling service to adopters has become a more evident and open issue since adopters have had to face the fact that their children will now have access to their birth certificates.
