The Unmarried Mother With Severe Emotional Problems: A Study of Nine Girls Who Were Referred for Psychiatric Consultation by St. Mary’s Shelter, the New York Foundling Hospital September, 1962 – September, 1963
Abstract
Background of the Study. The word, family, is so laden with meaning that its very mention sets off an emotional flash, momentarily illuminating a whole group of values clustered about it. The family, as Charles H. Cooley long ago remarked, is our primary human grouping. It is primary in the sense of being the basis of reproduction and socialization of the next generation by the previous one. It is the initial proving ground of cooperative and oppositional habits bound up with satisfying needs for affection, security, and status.
Subject Area
Social psychology|Social work
Recommended Citation
Schmidt, Joan, "The Unmarried Mother With Severe Emotional Problems: A Study of Nine Girls Who Were Referred for Psychiatric Consultation by St. Mary’s Shelter, the New York Foundling Hospital September, 1962 – September, 1963" (1964). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30844954.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30844954
