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456 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1964
If the first-born in such cases is a girl instead of a boy, she may run into difficulties; this is often seen in the first-born daughters of bankers, who may be cast adrift to become homosexuals, strip-tease artists, or the wives of improvident and irresponsible Bohemians or trust-fund bums.
and:
Cassandra was a clergyman’s daughter who dressed in the sloppy but oddly erotic style of Loser Sex, and her life had the same quality: sloppy but oddly erotic.
In one case, where the mother told all the children they would end up in the state hospital, they all did. The girls ended up as patients, and the boys as psychiatrists.
and:
The mother’s influence is most clearly shown in certain types of drug addicts. As previously noted, these are encouraged with the slogan: ‘Heroin, shmeroin, what’s the difference as long as he loves his mother?’
From a cynical point of view, the whole story sounds like a setup to allow father and godmother to spend the evening together.