ABSTRACT
This chapter describes psychoanalytically informed early parenting intervention project, which began in 1970, and its follow-up after nineteen, thirty-two and thirty-seven years. As with other findings, replication with larger populations is needed to further affirm the effectiveness of such supportive-educational intervention. In addition, a cost analysis taking into account the cost of the programme, the cost of criminal acts, police costs, judicial process and incarceration, welfare, child protective costs, life time earnings, drug abuse and treatment costs is likely to demonstrate the economic merits of the programmes. In the U. S. population of high school seniors, 65.3 per cent are reported to use alcohol while 27.1 per cent reported using other illicit drugs. One out of fifteen subjects (seven percent) dropped out of high school near the end of the eleventh grade due to pregnancy and her intention to take care of her baby.
