I agree. I have a friend who decided not to have children because her own upbringing was so dysfunctional that she felt she just wouldn't make a good parent. She didn't know how to be one. Nothing about genetic conditions that she might pass on - just learned behaviors.

If there's actually a genetic component to sz or sza or other mental illnesses, I don't believe that component is a "disease." I think that people like my son are just more sensitive in some ways, and that sensitivity lays them open to being more badly hurt by traumas. If we could actually convince everyone who has sz to not have children, I don't think we should. There's something uniquely human underlying the vulnerability which becomes sz in some people. We need that quality in the human race. We just need to learn to stop mistreating one another, so we don't traumatize one another.