Institute's results

Among other investigations and research, there was a revealing follow-up study made between 1968 and 1970 which was financed by the World Health Organization. This study involved the documented observations of the development of one hundred subjects, from fourteen to twenty-three years of age, who had been brought up as young children in the Pikler Institute and had then gone on to life in a family. Although in the majority of cases these families were incomplete, with only one parent - married or perhaps not married - none of these young people showed obvious symptoms of personality-disorder characteristics of one whose early childhood was spent in an institution. The results of this study, as well as those of others, have convincingly shown the solidity of the long-term effects of the care offered by the Institute on the development of a healthy personality capable of relationships and open to the world.

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