Congenital malformation.

Because a clear sense of identity is a necessary condition for adequate mental functioning, malformation of identity leads to discomfort with one s self and social maladjustment, reaching clinical proportions among the more fragile of us.

As in most neighboring countries and the world over, in Mozambique the birth of a child with congenital malformation often causes a feeling of guilty and becomes a reason for conflicts in marriages and families, and women become the major targets of accusations.