WHY STACK THE CARDS TOWARDS MISERY?
Here are the figures I have for risk of schizophrenia with age of the father: Fathers age 35-39 one in 85 children; Fathers 40-44 one in 80 children; fathers age 45-49 one in 68 children, and fathers aged 50-54 1/47 children. In a man 55 and older the risk is very, very high. There is a woman who has a blog on the internet who had a much older father and her five younger brothers are all schizophrenics. Your particular family may have very sturdy roots and therefore especially stable genes covering neural development. Which is great for you and them. You may not personally have to be concerned with this matter. The souce of my statistics is an article by Alan S. Brown, M.D. et al. called “Paternal Age and Risk of Schizophrenia in Adult Offspring” http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/159/9/1528? maxtoshow=&HITS=&hits=&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=schizophrenia&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=20&resourcetype=HWCIT There is an expected upswing in number of sporadic case
