The Adoption Reunion Handbook

DR LIZ TRINDER is a researcher into family relationships. Most ofher work is in the area of contact after divorce, e.g. the recentreport for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on Making Contact.This is the first time she has written about adoption. She washerself adopted. JULIA FEAST currently works at the British Association ofAdoption and Fostering (BAAF), London, as the Policy, Research andDevelopment Consultant. In the past she managed the post-adoptionand care counselling research project, The Children's Societyand has counselled a number of people who have been adopted andalso those who were brought up in Care through the search andreunion process. She has published many articles on the subject ofAdoption Search and Reunion and also the information needs ofchildren conceived as a result of donor-assisted conception. She isco-author of Preparing for Reunion: Experiences from theAdoption Circle (The Children's Society, 1994; newedition 1998) and Adoption, Search and Reunion: The Long-TermExperience of Adopted Adults (The Children's Society,2000; now published by BAAF), and Searching Questions: Origins,Identity and Adoption (BAAF, 2003). DR DAVID HOWE has a long-standing interest in all aspects ofadoption. He is the author of many books, including Half aMillion Women: Mothers who Lose their Children by Adoption(Penguin), Adopters on Adoption (BAAF), Patterns ofAdoption: Nature, Nurture and Psychosocial Development(Blackwell Science), and, with Julia Feast, Adoption, Search andReunion: The Long-Term Experience of Adopted Adults (TheChildren's Society, 2000; now published by BAAF).