Title: a tempest in a teapot
Product review: First, Harris is not credentialed and has no expertise in child psychology or any related field. Secondly, how can we believe our children are more affected by the kid down the street than by the people under whose roof they live? Harris seems to have written this book to prove she is not responsible for the problems of her adopted daughter, whose growing up years were much more difficult than those of Harris' natural born daughter. Has Harris done any reading on adopted children? It seems quite likely that much of her adopted child's problems stemmed from feelings born of being an adopted child. I believe many factors determine how a child behaves, including friends and acquaintances, heredity, etc. But I have seen all around me how individual parents affect their children by the way they treat them, the time they spend with them, the values and mores they impart, what the parents emphasize as important or unimportant, etc. Parents do matter!
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