ABSTRACT
Doctors are especially liable to get in the way between mothers and infants, or parents and children, always with the best intentions, for the prevention of disease and the promotion of health; and doctors are by no means the only offenders in the respect. A great number of deprived children are in fact engineered in one way or another, and the remedy lies in avoidance of bad management. A deprived child is ill, and it is never so simple a matter that environmental readjustment will bring about a changeover in the child from ill to healthy. At best, the child who can benefit from a simple environmental provision begins to get better, and as change takes place from ill to less ill the child becomes increasingly able to be angry about the past deprivation. The diagnosis of child has been made, in terms of presence or absence of positive features in the early environment and the child's relation to it.
