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Moose&Bella
09/20/09

Could my husbands family history of schizophrenia and depression put our children at higher risk?

My husbands mother has schizophrenia and his grandmother is manic depressive, there is no family history of mental illness on my side of the family, if we decide to start a family will our children be predisposed to either of those diseases. He is 27 and has niether. His mother resides in a…

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