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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.1.85

The author interviewed 200 unmarried women from diverse backgrounds who carried their pregnancies to term. Defective ego functioning was present in many of these women. Other factors that they had in common were repression of and denial of interest in their sexual lives and the absence of conscious worry about and failure to anticipate pregnancy.

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