Jamil and Suad were in turmoil and confusion. This was her last year at the university, and the plan the two of them had drawn up looked uncer-tain. She could obtain money to cover expenses, but a new baby had not been expected!.. "I do not hate children," said Suad, "but our present income does not help us." Jamil begged her to leave school temporarily until she gave birth, while he continued his studies and would help her afterward to reach her academic goal; the wife cried out in anger and resentment at the situation that stood between her and her aims.

The young couple's situation was critical, and the coming of the child added to its confusion — the child who brought Jamil back to recover his standing with his parents. Soon the parents' hearts softened, and Jamil's mind was set at rest.

It is an ordinary story, one that wraps the poor child in the help-lessness of parents who ignored their material situation and misun-derstood the true duty of parents, which requires them, in the period of the children's growth, to devote themselves to guidance and giving.

Jamil won his parents' sympathy, and his condition improved; but what could he have done had his family turned deaf ears to his cry for help?.. Inevitably he and his wife would have passed through a period of bitter struggle and pain that affects the first years of the child's development, for psycholo-gists affirm that all the behaviors and feelings that take form in the individual's personality are the result of his first experiences in life; and of course no father or mother wants a life of pain for this person cut from the very core of her being. Parental love forms the first shield to protect the child from slipping into abnormality and extremes.

Adnan is a child of four; his favorite pastime is shutting the neighbors' door when they wish to go out, and by this he tries to draw to himself a share of their attention. Such, too, was his conduct at home, respecting no order or arrangement. What is the cause of this strange behavior?

Yes — it is a hunger for affection and attention. His birth came contrary to his parents' plan,

for his father was employed in a distant country and sent for the mother to join him, but pregnancy kept her from traveling, and the two parents went on suffering a