ABSTRACT
Working in partnership with parents provides the opportunity to maintain their ability to reflect and elaborate on their own attachment experiences, which keep coming up at different stages of the journey. William and Mike Napier have developed a network of family and friends to support their parenting of their children. Monica comes from a family of four and was briefly in foster care as a child: she had always considered either fostering or adopting because it was a positive experience and she wanted to give back to other children. Monica gave up work when the children were placed and Rebecca took the first three months off work. Monica went to the doctor at the end of her tether, saying that Leon had hit her fifteen times in the week and wanting a referral to the Tavistock Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care Team (FAKCT). FAKCT is not just support for the adopted child; it is also support for the carers.
