HIV Infection and Children in Need

Parenting & Relationships

Daphne Batty

Family Health

British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)

Where to Find Adoption Records: A Guide for Counsellors

Stafford, Georgina

A Bibliography of Family Placement Literature: A Guide to Publications on Children, Parents and Carers

Martin Shaw

Parenting Children Exposed to Parental Substance Abuse Addresses the concerns of those who seek to increase their awareness of the effect on children of drugs, alcohol, and other substances used by parents, especially by mothers during pregnancy.

Bruised Before Birth: Parenting Children Exposed to Parental Substance Abuse

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After Adoption

Emma Phillips Rena & McWILLIAM

Emma McWilliam

Child Protection

Deborah Cullen

Reflections on Parenthood and Children An absorbing collection of personal stories, based on interviews with 120 adoptive families, that give voice to the adopter's experiences, feelings, and observations from their initial thoughts about adoption through to supporting their adopted child into adulthood. Essential reading for prospective adopters and adopted people and anyone who wants to gain an insight into the emotions and experiences that are concealed behind, but must determine, adoption practice.

Adopters on Adoption : Reflections on Parenthood and Children

David Howe

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Implications for Policy and Practice The issue of contact between the child and members of the birth family has gained particular prominence in within the UK in recent years though it is still a relatively new and experimental practice. This work makes a significant contribution to the literature on the subject by examining the experience of adoption in a number of cases paying particular attention to the implications for the adopted child, adoptive parents and birth parents.

Adoption with contact: Implications for policy and practice

Joan Fratter

Rena Phillips

Taking Extra Care: Respite, Shared and Permanent Care for Children

Hedi Argent

Ailie Kerrane

One of a new series of children's books that are particularly suitable for children who have been adopted or fostered. Describes the story of Nathan, a two-and-a-half-year-old African Caribbean boy who has to leave his mother following neglect and who is adopted by a single black parent. In between, however, he is with foster carers to whom he grows attached. Full colour throughout.

Belonging Doesn't Mean Forgetting

Sheila Byrne

Leigh Chambers

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