Mother–Baby Role Play: Its Origins in Social Support**This research was supported, in part, by a National Institutes of Mental Health Grant No. 1ROMH34413–01 to the first author and a Spencer Foundation Grant to the second author. We wish to thank Judy DeJong and Anca Nemoianu for help in processing the data.

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