But it is also quite possible that these teenagers were motivated by inner conflicts that had their roots in infancy or the preschool year. For instance, many pregnant girl come form homes without fathers. Perhaps Sheila never fully resolved the Electra complex of the phallic stage and was unconsciously seeking to possess her father by possessing James and having a baby. James, of course, might have been seeking to gratify his unconscious desire for his mother through Sheila. Teenagers often seem to distance themselves form their parents as a defense against reawakened Oedipal feelings of love for the opposite-sex parent.