In the second year of development the child learns responsibilities and controls. Many of the children with AD do not progress beyond the second or third year in their responsibility growth and require constant monitoring of their performance of chores, and schoolwork.
Children who lack permanence in their lives often develop a "one-day-at-a-time" understanding of life which effects the proper development between thoughts of feelings, actions choices and outcomes. They think, "I've been moved so many times, I'll just be moved again. So why should I care?" This lack of projecting into the future is explained in the book "Adopting the Hurt Child" by authors Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky, as creating trouble in developing:
