See RoweJCainHHundlebyMKeaneA, Long term foster care, Batsford/BAAF1984, for a full discussion of this issue, although the children in that study were younger at placement and had less contact with members of their birth families.
2.
See annual reports of Parents for Children, and Barnardo's New Families Projects. Also Wedge P, Report to Essex Social Services Department on Homefinding Units, 1984.
3.
RoweJLambertL, Children who wait, ABAA, 1973.
4.
FahlbergB, Helping children when they must move, BAAF, 1981.
5.
For a summary of these studies see Kelly G, ‘The Lost Cord’, Social Work Today13, 12, 1981 pp 7–9, and Rowe J et al (op cit).
6.
TriseliotisJ, ‘Identity and security in adoption and long-term fostering’, Adoption & Fostering, 71, 1983.
