Assortative mating.
Psychosocial programs that introduce young people with psychosis to each other encourage bonding and, perhaps, marriage. By providing such programs, are we unwittingly promoting assortative mating, with ill effects for offspring? Or, on the other hand, are we ensuring better health for young people with psychosis and perhaps laying the groundwork for stronger marital unions than they would otherwise have formed? Instead of steering young people with psychosis into specialized services, should we be "mainstreaming" them, equipping them in situ with the skills necessary to navigate the larger social world? Should we even be considering the welfare of future generations, or is this beyond psychiatry's ken?
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, 250 College St., Toronto M5T 1R8, Canada. mary.seeman@utoronto.ca
Mary V
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Seeman
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