The Encyclopedia of Parenting Theory and Research

I must admit that I approached this volume with more of a personal interest, rather than the proper objective approach of an impartial reviewer, as my wife and I have recently adopted a slightly disturbed nine‐year‐old boy. I therefore turned immediately to the section on adoption, and found it not very helpful to me, unfortunately, as the entry here is based mainly on the adoption of babies rather than of older children with a substantial care history, by parents with no children of their own, rather than by parents with other older children. I then turned to chattering or compulsive...