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...Billion Dollar Club of U.S. Corporations last week welcomed a new member. In 1952, for the first time, the sales of Kroger Grocery Co. topped $1 billion, and its earnings rose from $9,000,000 to $12 million. Kroger's chain of 1,891 stores in 19 Midwest states thus became the 26th U.S. company with annual sales of more than $1 billion...
Anything in the World? As for the mental mechanics of the problem, Dr. Kroger reports that many women "straddle the fence" in their attitude toward motherhood: behind the conscious desire to bear a child there may be a deeper, unconscious revulsion against having one. This, in turn, may be the result of emotional immaturity and dependence (seeking to make the marriage into a child-parent relationship with the husband as parent), or an aggressive, masculine personality which would make the patient resent a child's demands...
Several patients studied by Dr. Kroger were overweight, and he attributed their obesity and sterility to the same cause-a childlike desire to be taken care of. "We have often noted," said Dr. Kroger, "that these neurotic women state that they 'will do anything in the world to get pregnant,' yet when given diets and basal body temperature charts, they find many rationalizations for not dieting and keeping the monthly record." The last thing in the world that they really want, he contended, is weight reduction and the normal ovarian function which could make pregnancy possible...
...Hollow Triumph? Dr. Kroger did not suggest that because a physician considers a woman patient neurotic he should take upon himself the burden of deciding whether or not she should have a child. Instead, he proposed that the physician, perhaps with the help of a psychiatrist, explain to the patient the emotional meaning of her sterility, and thus help her decide for herself...
...case where sterility of mental origin is overcome by medical help, said Dr. Kroger, "the same psychological difficulties which once prevented conception may influence the child's psychic development, and just as in the case of the emotionally immature but fertile woman, another member is added to an endless procession of neurotics. Therefore, the physician must.be aware that apparently 'successful' treatments of [such] sterility without adequate psychotherapy may actually become a hollow triumph...