Parent to Parent Information on Adoption Services (PPIAS), a self-help adopters' group, holds parties for families twice a year, shares experiences and knowledge and encourages the adoption of children with special needs.
2.
See HolmanRobert, ‘Exclusive and inclusive concepts of fostering’ in TriseliotisJohn (ed), New developments in fostering and adoption, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.
3.
See Margaret Adcock's discussion of adoption and access issues, and the need for birth parents to take the role of ‘distant relative’, thus permitting the adopters to act as ‘custodial parent,’ in Adoption & Fostering 81.
