Helen Oakwater been writing on adoption and related issues since 2003. A selection is attached below.

Child abuse victims needs more than our sympathy (120.34 kB)
Children abused in infancy are likey to suffer from Developmental Trauma Disorder

Valuing your needs (1.37 MB)
In this articles needs and linked to values to make sense of how parenting traumatised children can impact adults in surprising ways

 The cost of trauma (39.36 kB)
A simple cost benefit analysis demonstrating why early therapeutic interventions with traumatised children will save money and heartache

Is this what I expected (42.9 kB)
Why adopters facing the challenges of parenting hurt children need to constantly adapt their expectations to maintain some sanity

Robust matching for permenance (40.42 kB) 
Why the approval and matching process needs to be solid, well thought through and involve creative and varied approaches

 Toxic parents (61.79 kB)
Using Dr Susan Forwards  model of 6 types of toxic parents and how they damage their children. This artice links it to adoptive parenting and how infant trauma has lasting effects