LATE CONSEQUENCES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPRIV ATION AND SUBDEPRIVATION .3. CHILDREN BORN FROM UNWANTED PREGNANCY, CHILDREN FROM CHILDRENS HOMESAND CHILDREN FROM FOSTER-PARENT CARE IN LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP-STUDY

Four groups of adult persons growing up in a non-standard psyche-socia l environment during their childhood which was threatening their devel opment to different extent by psychological deprivation are compared. These children lived in children's homes, in the individual foster-par ent care, in SOS children villages, the fourth group was formed by chi ldren born from unwanted pregnancy. The fifth group is the control gro up to the 'unwanted children'' which represents the approximate social norm for contemporary times. The findings obtained in all five groups mentioned are compared in this study The unfavourable characteristics follow as a rule the direction from persons from children's homes to persons from individual foster-parent care, further on to persons grow ing up in their own families under the less favourable social and emot ional conditions, ultimately to the group of control persons. The deve lopment of men and women in all groups followed up differs in specific way. The differences are evidently stressed in the dependence on the presence or absence, function or disfunction of mother and father ( fe male and male element) in the early upbringing of the child. The findi ngs are important both for contemporary societal practice and for gene ral theory of the human psyche-social development.