There are more recent studies, generally from Scandinavia. But the following from Finland is particularly sobering:

Psychol Med. 2008 Aug;38(8):1203-10. Epub 2007 Nov 30.

Mortality in offspring of mothers with psychotic disorder.

Suvisaari J1, Häkkinen L, Haukka J, Lönnqvist J.

Previous studies suggest that offspring of mothers with psychotic disorders have an almost two-fold higher mortality risk from birth until early adulthood. We investigated predictors of mortality from late adolescence until middle age in offspring of mothers with psychotic disorders.

METHOD:

The Helsinki High-Risk Study follows up offspring (n=337) of women treated for schizophrenia spectrum disorders in mental hospitals in Helsinki before 1975. Factors related to mortality up to 2005 among offspring of these mothers was investigated with a survival model. Hazard rate ratios (HRR) were calculated using sex, diagnosis of psychotic disorder, childhood socio-economic status, maternal diagnosis, and maternal suicide attempts and aggressive symptoms as explanatory variables. The effect of family was investigated by including a frailty term in the model. We also compared mortality between the high-risk group and the Finnish general population.

RESULTS:

Within the high-risk group, females had lower all-cause mortality (HRR 0.43, p=0.05) and mortality from unnatural causes (HRR 0.24, p=0.03) than males. Having themselves been diagnosed with a psychotic disorder was associated with higher mortality from unnatural causes (HRR 4.76, p=0.01), while maternal suicide attempts were associated with higher suicide mortality (HRR 8.64, p=0.03). Mortality in the high-risk group was over two-fold higher (HRR 2.44, p

p.s. That being said... It is important to look up what Masten and Garmezy said about resilience.

I also would recommend following the Scandinavian studies, most notably the work of Pekka Tienari on adoptive families.

See this interesting paper

Very good one

I have found it quite challenging to fund research on parenting of bipolar women - without funds, the study has not been done.

Hi Emilia, what is the aim of Your search? 

to know if a familiar distress can go  further to develop childrens' disease? or to know how parents with psychosis could care the own family? even if these are two sides of the same problem, the social functioning of psychotic people.

I found that parents' disease produce familiar distress (variable basing on many condition internal and external of family) and I' ve found sometime also repeating of disease .  it depends on the therapeutical cooperation, acceptance and help that can be offered to the patients, it depends on the law of the state ..., it depends on the aim of  psychiatric services and on the social and economical situations of the state.

anyway, to assess the parental role of psychotic persons I use the QOL-Proxy comparing with sf36 and it can be intresting to have some more impression from Your site.

greteings

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