Schizophrenia usually skips generations and appears in genes but more commonly created by unstable environments. If a parent got diagnosed with this disease it would be very rare if it appeared in their child's genes. As stated by Laura Sanders, “Schizophrenia--a disease that typically shows up after adolescence”. This specific mental disorder can show up in children’s genes, but can not be diagnosed until after adolescence. During teenage years, teens have a lot of distressing causing certain brain cells to more fully develop this disease. In some circumstances, parents who have schizophrenia can onset the disease which causes it to show up in children at a young age. Their parents schizophrenic behavior causes the child to grow up in an inevitable disturbed …show more content…
One author presented that, “Children in ‘schizophrenogenic families’ are manipulated and emotionally strained by their parents…”(Modrow). Scott and P.L. Ashworth studied the series of personality disorders which have patterns of behavior, feeling, or thought. Scott and Ashworth studied a parent who viewed the patient as a virtual reincarnation of a mad relative but, because the parent got involved with this relative, they have a secret fear of going mad. As John Modrow states, “I find Scott and Ashworth’s paper extremely significant since it suggests that schizophrenia is actually transmitted through the belief that madness is inherited rather than by heredity itself”. As an example, a mother could have had a postpartum psychotic episode, and because of that they could result in a lifelong fear of going mad which can transfer onto the child. This example would resemble a “schismatic” family which shows when the parents have their own personality difficulties. By the way schizophrenics live, the disease can get passed down from their skewed