Mental Disorde/Having Children...Serious People Only?

Question

I asked this question a few days ago...wanted to get some more opinions on it...Thanks!

My husband suffered from schizophrenia a few years back...it has been under control ever since. He was hospitazlied for it once...He is now on the lowest dose of medicine possible...Does anyone know the chances if, we have a child of our child getting the disorder. I know it's heritary but is there anyone who has experiance with this or has known anyone?? Please serious answers only

Answer 1

Hope this page on heredity and the genetics of schizophrenia helps.

http://www.schizophrenia.com/research/hereditygen.htm

The chances depend on both sides of the family, and other factors such as environment (e.g. lead exposure during pregnancy, birth complications, extremely high stress experiences in life while young, drug use while a teenager) also affect whether a child with the gene will eventually develop schizophrenia.

Answer 2

You are sooooo very smart for inquiring about this before you make a HUGE life-decision : ) I have to say that from my personal experience....I wouldn't. -I was with my hubby (common-law) for 9 years and he had no history of Schizophrenia etc. We had 2 beautiful children together (5+3yrs). We were an amazingly happy,normal family. Then, one night he snapped and started seeing things,accusing me of crazy things.....I didn't know what was happening to be honest.
2 days later,he committed suicide.(on July 2nd,2005) Now, I am left alone to raise the family WE created...And i lost my best friend and half of myself. I'm sorry for being such a "sad-sack." I'm not trying to bring you down or make you feel bad. And I'm not saying your hubby will EVER do that! But,the chances are quite a bit higher....I do wish i could've known first and made a decision about it like you are..Cause to be extremely honest;I wouldn't do things the same. I say that because I can't even get describe the pain when i think of my babies growing up without their Daddy.They don't deserve to be put through that.But,I will try everyday to make sure they know how much he loved them.
Anyways, I'm glad I could share an actual experience with you..And I wish you and your hubby a happy,amazing lifetime together!!Every moment is precious : )
~Thank you so much for letting me "share" that with you..~Terra_Antares

Answer 3

properly desire this helps. at the same time as this is been stumbled on that there are genetic aspects to schizophrenia, maximum study have shown that it actually ends up in an higher threat of someone arising the condition. So till there is a few thing that motives the gene to be expressed, maximum persons would have the gene proceed to be dormant with the help of their lives. twin study, study between same twins, shows that the position one twin has schizophrenia, the different has a 28% threat of arising it himself/herself. So in case you and your husband do be sure to have children, you'll have a 80% threat, your newborn will inheirit the defective genes, followed by using a 28% threat of the gene being expressed. And those innovations you, are pessimistic values.

Answer 4

personally I dont think its worth the risk...

the world is plenty populated as it is and according to the United Nations we are 1 Billion people too many... so its not like people need to risk bringing more people into the world anyhow...

now think about this.. if you have a kid and he gets this.. PLUS your husband has a re-occurance.. this will be INSANE to deal with.. your kid could get it worse than your husband... I dont think its fair to do this to another person...
so I vote - no kids.. husband should get a vasectomy - you can get your tubes tied... you can adopt if you REALLY want to be parents.. but lets face it, you know what is right.. you know risking another person having this terrible disease isnt good for you or anyone else

Answer 5

it depends on if it's genetic or not! if it's not genetic then your child wont have this problem, ut ask a doctor, it's the best thing to do...