CHILDREN FROM UNWANTED PREGNANCIES IN PRAGUE, CZECH-REPUBLIC REVISITED AT AGE 30

The results of the fourth wave of the Prague Study of subjects born of unwanted pregnancies (UP) are reported. Of these young adults, 190 we re examined at age 30 together with pair-matched control subjects born of accepted pregnancies (AP). Siblings of both UP and AP subjects wer e also examined. As in the previous data waves the UP subjects manifes t less favorable psychosocial development on average than their AP con trols, although the differences have narrowed. In some respects the si blings of the UP subjects share the latter's less favorable characteri stics. However, there is a gender specific nonshared late effect of un wanted pregnancy: the UP females are more frequently emotionally distu rbed than their AP female controls, whereas no such difference occurs between the female siblings of the UP and AP subjects.