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A PRELIMINARY survey of the available data on unwed motherhood reveals that historically a variety of etiological factors have been emphasized. Studies made during the 1920's stressed such causal factors as immorality and mental deficiency. 1 During the 1930's the findings pointed to the factors of a broken home, poverty, little education, and domestic occupation. 2 Within the past two decades, unwed motherhood has been explained increasingly as an accepted pattern of life in a given sub-culture.3 However, the most frequent emphasis at the present time appears to be upon psychological processes. The majority of current studies conclude that unwed motherhood is a product of un-
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