This paper continues the theme of a previous article by one of the authors that the college drop-out might be understood as attempting to maintain the family unit. The authors try to emphasize in transactional terms the sacrificial aspect involved in maintaining the family. Apparently without intention, they bring in from several sources the more intrapsychic idea that the college student drops out to return to the mother. This regression has been formulated by A. Kardiner though surprisingly the word, regression, is not used once in