Describes research investigation emotional development in children of depressed mothers, of "super-rich" parents, and in families with occurrances of father-daughter incest. (SL)

Areas of agreement and disagreement concerning intellectual developmental and the problems of mental retardation espoused by the author and by Uzgiris are discussed in this paper. The importance of environmental factors, along with the genetic and/or constitutional nature of the organism on which these environmental events impinge, is seen as…