The mother would enjoy the same lasting prestige as the father if she assumed equal material and moral responsibility for the couple; the child would feel an androgynous world around her and not a masculine world; were she more affectively attracted to her father which is not even certain her love for him would be nuanced by a will to emulate him and not a feeling of weakness: she would not turn to passivity; if she were allowed to prove her worth in work and sports, actively rivaling boys, the absence of a penis compensated for by the promise of a child would not suffice to cause an 'inferiority complex'; correlatively, the boy would not have a natural 'superiority complex' if it were not instilled in him and if he held women in the same esteem as men.