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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Man, this is a tough one. My xH disclosed to me AFTER we had DD that schizophrenia runs in his family and it's likely DD will end up with it.

I was furious, bc I had I known back then, I probably would not have had a child with him. But I love DD so much and can't imagine live without hey, so I'm so glad she's here and wouldn't change that.

I also wouldn't want anyone telling my DD she shouldn't have children, I want her to make that decision on her own. [/quote]

That is statistically inaccurate. In the situation where your husband does not have schizophrenia and you don’t either odds of having a kid with schizophrenia are very rarely above 10% if there is only family history on one side. Most likely that your daughter won’t have schizophrenia and that your grandkids won’t either. Your husband doesn’t understand statistics well. [/quote] On average, the odds that a kid with European ancestry will have schizophrenia is around 10% if one of the parents has schizophrenia and 40% if both parents have it. The average odds of a kid having schizophrenia if neither parent has it less than 1%. So your daughters probability of having schizophrenia even with extensive family history on the fathers side is most likely somewhere in the range of 1-10%[/quote]

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