More than Love

About the Book

MORE THAN LOVE is a candid account of contrasting emotions - hope and lost hope, joy and despair, perseverance and helplessness – that resulted from parenting three Attachment Disorder adopted boys. It also describes the adoptive parents’ frustration at the system for not providing the help they were promised prior to the adoption. The book takes the reader through the emotional roller coaster experienced by both of the adoptive parents as they searched for answers from therapists, psychologists, social workers, clergy, teachers, friends, and family. It also provides explicit details of the boys’ deviant behaviors and describes the behaviors observed by outsiders. Others only witnessed charming, sweet, and "good" boys. Unfortunately, children with attachment problems are experts at manipulation and often dupe others, including those trained to detect such deceitfulness. Tragically, these adoptive parents finally had no choice but to let go of the boys in order to protect their family, friends, and society.

About the Author

Sherril M. Stone, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychology. Once an adoptive mother for three boys affected with Attachment Disorder, her professional work examines human-pet bonding and the use of animals in therapeutic interventions, as well as animal learning and cognition. She is the founder and owner of Pet-Me Pets, a program providing pet therapy to nursing home residents and physically and emotionally disabled adults and children. She lives in Claremore, Oklahoma.