Abstract
The relationship between sex of offspring born to female mental patients and the degree of active maternal mental disturbance near reproduction was studied for 243 reproductions by 123 patients. Severity of active mental disturbance was judged on a seven-point general psychopathology scale, based primarily on information from all known psychiatric records. All diagnostic groups showed a slight excess of male over female offspring; offspring sex was unrelated to degree of active maternal mental disturbance both during pregnancy and postpartum; and a slight overweight of female offspring was found among endogenous psychotics developing a more severe disturbance postpartum.
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