ABSTRACT
In this chapter will be discussed the group of eleven children who found themselves in somewhat stressful family situations, together with two who had lost their mothers during their earlier childhood. In none of these cases, however, did the contemporary situation or the situation that had obtained for the past nine or ten years reach the critical level of stress characteristic of the standard maladjustment-conducive patterns. This assessment is supported by the evidence that there were only four delinquent or unstable children out of a total of fifty-one known full siblings in the thirteen families.
