Adoption with Contact
John Triseliotis · Adoption & Fostering · 1985
care policy and practice are moving so fast that some of yesterday's certainties become today's dilemmas. Research itself cannot catch up with all these developments. As an example, we are only just beginning to obtain the results of mainly small scale studies monitoring and evaluating some of the developments of the 1970s.One issue which has been increasingly in the forefront in the last couple of years concerns the desirability or otherwise of pro-viding access facilities to a member of the original family after the child is adopted. In a previous article in this Journal (Triseliotis, 1983), I put forward the suggestion that adoption with a condition of access should be