Word: pecker
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Failure. The mother, a chronic "baby-carriage pecker" since childhood, resigned herself to having no children after eight years of sterility, then conceived. She kept her son on bottle-feeding until he was five, babied him in other ways. At 14 the boy was referred to a child guidance institute by a teacher for impudence, defiance, tantrums, gambling. The mother refused to mitigate her control in the slightest. Result: at 25, the boy was married to a model who supported him, was still lazy, bad-tempered, irresponsible, a braggart...