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Catalogue by titles / Staying Connected. Managing contact arrangements in adoption

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ISS/IRC Code	TOOL-ADOPT ENG-083
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Title	Staying Connected. Managing contact arrangements in adoption
Author	ARGENT Hedi (Ed.)
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Date published/issue	00-00-2002
Date received	00-00-0000
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Publisher	British Association for Adoption and Fostering, Skyline House, 200 Union Street, London SE1 0LX, Uni
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Page	246
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ISBN	1 903699 12 6
Type of material	Book
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Index	Fam-orig-post-adopt-sup Origins-info Identity-origin
Free text	Collection of articles which develop the different issues associated with contact arrangements in situations where children have been placed permanently outside their family of origin. These go over the different forms of contact, the services in place to provide the framework and support needed with contact arrangements, the difficulties found in each case - including preparing the children for contact, but also the benefits to the children and their families. The situation of contact in intercountry adoption is discussed in two very different chapters - The Paraguayan Connection which is an account of a family's return to Paraguay to meet their daughter's birth family and the beneficial effects this experience had for their adopted daughter and Remaining connected: From an overseas adoption perspective which points out the real difficulties in contact arrangements arising from the enormous socio-cultural differences combined with issues of poverty that are often part of an intercountry adoption story.