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  • 11 - Schizophrenia and motherhood

  • from Part III - Specific disorders: the impact on parent–child relationships
    • By Mary V. Seeman, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • Edited by Michael Göpfert, Webb House Democratic Therapeutic Community, Crewe, Jeni Webster, 5 Boroughs Partnership, Warrington, Mary V. Seeman, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    Parental Psychiatric Disorder
    Published online:
    09 August 2009
    Print publication:
    13 May 2004, pp 161-171

  • Summary

    This chapter addresses the questions: how many women with schizophrenia become parents, and how many actually bring up their children. In other words, what are the dimensions of the potential problems that the conjunction of motherhood and schizophrenia poses. The chapter answers what is the subjective experience of these mothers, how important is the parenting role to them as individuals and how do they perceive the assistance they receive in fulfilling that role. It examines what determines parenting capacity and how and when should assessments be done and what are the mental health outcomes in children of mothers with schizophrenia, whether reared with or reared away from their mothers. The chapter addresses what is the subjective experience of these children, and does schizophrenia impact differently at stages of a child's life and/or at different phases of the mother's illness. It inspects how psychiatric services can best assist mothers with schizophrenia.