Over the years we have learned that there is really no such thing as a clean break and the lives of all those involved in adoption are bound up with each other to a greater or lesser degree.

 

Adopted children want to know about their roots and to make sense of their early experiences. This is the case even where a close loving relationship exists with their adoptive families.

Adoptive parents benefit from helping the children know more about their birth family origins.

 

Birth parents never forget the pain of parting from their children and may seek reassurance that they are alive and well.

There are different types of contact. It can mean a single letter between adopters and birth parents when a child is first placed for adoption. It can also mean regular face to face meetings between adopted children and significant people in their lives.

 

The most common form of contact is Letterbox contact.

Adopters, birth families and adopted children may agree to exchange letters, photographs, cards and/or vouchers by sending them via the Letterbox Administrator.

 

In some cases, face to face or direct contact, is agreed. This is usually once or twice a year, between an adopted child and members or their birth family.

 

Sometimes, contact involves children keeping in touch with brothers and sisters who have been adopted separately, or who live with foster carers, grandparents, birth parents or other relatives.

If your contact arrangements are not working out as you'd hoped, please contact us.

 

A member of our team can help you and act as a mediator for face to face meetings. We can also help you with letterbox contact arrangements. Even if it's difficult, at some stage your child will want to know that you did everything you could to keep some form of contact going with important people in their lives.