As you know, I found it very odd that so little attention was paid to the importance or otherwise of the relationships of adopted children to their former foster carers. After all they had often spent most of their early lives with them, and the scope for misunderstanding or misinterpreting the move was considerable (e.g. it would be easy to see it as a punishment or rejection or as yet further evidence of the unpredictability of all relationships).
Professor Ian Sinclair
Emeritus Professor
Social Policy Research Unit
University of York