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Birth parents will soon be able to trace their adopted children through intermediaries. But how many will want to? Julia Feast, John Triseliotis, and Fiona Kyle evaluate their study's results [...]

Sixteen social workers and 21 families in Scotland were interviewed to research step-parent adoptions. The majority of families were angered by the legal requirement that the birth parent and step-parent must both be made adoptive parents, although this anomaly is redressed by the Adoption Law Review. The British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering is adverse to the Review's suggestion that a revocable step-parent adoption order should be made if the marriage ends. Almost 50% of all adoptions are accounted for by step-parent adoptions, but the Review is concerned that the child's needs are not always paramount.