ABSTRACT
The existence of a family and the maintenance of a family atmosphere result from the relationship between the parents in the social setting in which they live. What the parents can ‘contribute in' to the family that they are building up depends a great deal on their general relationship to the wider circle around them, their immediate social setting. The total sex fantasy, conscious and unconscious is almost infinitely variable, and has the vital significance. It is important to understand, among other things, the sense of concern or guilt that arises out of the destructive elements. In the certain psychiatric illnesses of the children there are tendencies of a secondary nature which develop and show themselves as an active need on the part of the child to break up anything that is good, stable, reliable, or in any way valuable.
