"I wasn't educated to promote contact between adopted children and their birth families," explains Sarah, who, with her husband, has adopted three children, one from birth and the other two from long-term care.
"I still feel you have to be very careful about it because it can reawaken upsetting feelings - and because contact can be abused."
She gives the example of the birth father of one of her children. He had been abusive when the child was living with him and refused to accept that indirect contact - namely receiving photographs and school reports - was the most appropriate arrangement.
"He always created difficulties when it came to contact," she adds.
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