said they would still have married even if a blood test had detected a gene for bipolar disorder. In the same study, 55% of patients and 58% of their spouses said knowing they or their spouse had a gene for bipolar disorder would not have deterred them from having children. For persons with schizophrenic family members in DeLisi and Bertisch’s (2006) sample, 38% would forgo marriage and childbearing if they had a positive genetic test for schizophrenia, although significantly fewer psychiatrists (9%) and psychiatric genetic researchers (3%) would recommend this.
