Abstract
The incidence and method of marriage, as well as the fertility of 132 schizophrenics (67 males and 65 females) and 108 manic-depressives (40 males and 68 females) were compared to those found in 120 control medical cases (60 males and 60 females) within the same range of age, social class and educational status in the outpatient clinic of Kasr-El-Aini hospital, Cairo. Schizophrenics were found to have fewer marriages and to show a diminished incidence of love marriage. Some schizophrenic men married by the forced method which was not encountered in males of the manic-depressive or control groups. Forced marriage did not protect against the onset of schizophrenia. — Schizophrenics have a smaller number of children than manic-depressives and controls and show a significant diminution of the proportion of children they have after the onset of the disease when compared to manic-depressives. On the other hand, manic-depressives did not differ significantly from controls in any of the points investigated in this study. — It is suggested that the size of the family of schizophrenics is a function not only of the age of onset of the disease, determining the length of the premorbid period of marriage, but also of the course of the illness determining the degree of chronicity and residual manifestations.
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