Eventually, I made contact with Adoption UK (formerly known as PPIAS - the Parent to Parent Information on Adoption Services) who can offer
advice about attachment difficulties, as well as putting parents in touch with others who have experienced similar difficulties.
There is plenty of more extensive
advice about attachment and adoption, but this is the general idea.
Not exact matches
The above blather
about attachment theory is to pave the way in advance for an excuse when infants and children placed into joint custody arrangements as a result of the «
advice» in this article start doing badly.