Multidisciplinary research on a number of unmarried mothers who, since the delivery, chose to live with their child in homes called ‘Hotels Maternels’, where great attention is given to a good psychological environment and best care to the baby. The clinical observation (medical, psychological tests etc.) has been devoted to the somatic and psychoaffective development of the offspring from birth to school age; the investigation on the mother concerns her personality, emotional state and psychiatric pathology. Special consideration is given to mother-child relationship. The aim is to appreciate the chances of a good social integration for the mother and the baby as well as the effect of good care for both. The first results of the research show no gross maternal psychiatric pathology, but clearly indicate that a lonely motherhood represents a transitional state with ambivalence and feelings of incompleteness very much like those experienced by a married woman living existential or personal difficult
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