The Moral Life of Children

I had difficulty immersing myself in this book, because of the author's unnecessary name-dropping. I understand, without context, to mention that the author met Anna Freud personally, since she founded the study of child psychology. However, I see no need to add, both in-text, and in a specific endnote, that the author's wife was friends with the author [a:Flannery O'Connor 22694 Flannery O'Connor http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1268204096p2/22694.jpg].