The lecture will be a tribute to the inclusion of Clinical Social Work consultation as a Soonercare benefit during the perinatal period. The presenters will describe the psychosocial considerations known to have impact on the healthy outcome of childbearing, parenting, and early infant mental health. “Whatever does not specifically back up the idea that parents are responsible people will in the long run be harmful to the very core of society….out of the healthy family comes the future.” D.W. Winnicott, The child and the Family and the Outside World.