ABSTRACT
In the remaining fifteen cases in the sample the family situations answered to one or other of the standard maladjustment and delinquency-producing patterns. 56 The common factor in them was their unreliability from the child's point of view. There was a constant danger of their disintegration by the desertion of one or other parent; or the child was under the threat of being put out of the home; or else he had made but was deprived of a primary attachment to a surrogate parent.
