ABSTRACT
A special group of the separated, deprived children were our relatively small proportion of girls who had spent all, or very nearly all of their childhood in Children's Homes. Reference was made on the section on separations to Bowlby 1 and others who have dealt much with this problem, and while workers whose theories are less psychoanalytical would wish to modify the stress on separation as such, no one—especially those who have lived with the extreme manifestations of such conditions—would deny the peculiar personality difficulties that arise from children who have long lacked family life.
