Title: Discouraging but some helpful information...some not
Product review: While there is some helpful information in this book, it is full of horror stories. It is especially discouraging to single parents, who only warrant a page of discussion. While it is true that attachment problems are especially common in kids adopted over the age of one, this book paints an especially bleak picture. I much preferred "Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child," which addresses attachment and despite the title, also has helpful strategies for domestic adoptive parents where the family background is sketchy. This book is dated, and future revisions would benefit from the removal of holding and reparenting strategies, which have been proved harmful.
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