Successful adult outcomes, Winnicott believed, are not the result of irreplaceable blood bonds but of consistent and well-managed care. Thus, his oft-cited figure of the “good-enough mother” was “not necessarily the infant’s own.” Winnicott saw his own childhood as one held together by an entire assemblage of women, among them his biological mother, two sisters, a governess, a nanny, and a house full of maids.