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For your straight answers, yes your husband and kids may manifest with schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is known to be inheritable. However, even given the disposition, the signs and symptoms may or may not show, depending on the level of expression of involved genes, and the presence of environmental stressors/triggers. Schizophrenia typically manifests in adolescence or early adulthood, but this is not an unbreakable rule. Also, you might want to inquire on the nature of his mother's psychotic disorder. If it was purely drug-induced, then the likelihood drops. I've forgotten the values for the heritability estimates and penetrance for schizophrenia, so a mental health professional or even just an internet source might help you better. That said, the prognosis of schizophrenia is not the same for everyone. A quarter get well and stay well, another chunk live relatively normal lives with medication, and the others don't fare so well (as far as I can remember).

Well schizophrenic disorder is a chemical imbalance, as most mental illnesses are. So the likelihood that it can be passed down to your children is a possibility. How great, I'm honestly not sure. Of course if the disorder does display itself there is medicines and treatments for it.

As for your husband most likely not, as a previous answer stated it usually shows up a little earlier in life.

A lot of it depends on what caused his Mother's schizophrenia, there is a genetic factor to it - but not always. You would have to go more into Mom's background to find out.

Even if your husband's family has a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia, it does not mean your husband or children will get it - although it does increase the odds slightly.

You might check out these websites:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/schizo...

http://www.nami.org/

http://www.schizophrenia.ca/files/Rays_of_Hope.pdf

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/schizophrenia/DS0...

They have a lot of very good information on schizophrenia. The first three websites have booklets in pdf format that you can download and save for future reference.

You might also check out www.healthcentral.com/schizophrenia it has a blog, forums, and question and answer sections. It is very informative.

There is also an excellent book, "Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Patients, and Providers" by E. Fuller Torrey, Fifth Edition. I know Barnes & Noble has it. It is very good reading and tells a lot about schizophrenia - what it is, how it's treated, and how to deal with it. That may help you with your Mother-In-Law, too.

Schizophrenia does tend to run in families (it's more genetic than illnesses like depression, for instance). If your husband's older than 25, it's highly unlikely that he would become schizophrenic. Schizophrenia usuallly shows up in the late teens, or in the early twenties at the latest. It's possible that your children could have schizophrenia, since it's genetic.

i'm 42 and schizophrenic. i was adopted and did not know for along time what was wrong with me. my biological father was psychotic paranoid schizophrenic. i am not. i do not cause harm to others only myself, unmediated thank god i'm on seroquel and have been for 10 year's. it has given me a new life.it is possible. that your children could have it. but being informed and aware is your most important tool's, my girl's are now 21 and 20, and i'm a grandmother, they do not have it. just by your asking and wanting to know. shoe's me that your intelligent and caring. it's not an easy thing to deal with in any loved one. but new medication's and doctor's being more aware. have changed the outlook for us. it is no longer a doomed life of no hope in sight. bless you and yours. and i hope that it will not effect your children or grandchildren, but if it doe's. i have a feeling that you will be strong compassionate and involved.have great holiday's smile's jamie

Your husband would most likely begin showing symptoms in his late teens or early 20s; that is the time schizophrenia most often manifests itself. If he's older than that, he's most likely in the clear. I suppose that anything is possible with children...there is no way to know if they are going to have it, but I do not think that it is necessarily hereditary.

men usually become schizo around age 18-25.if hes older than that its unlikely that he will get it.scizophrenia is genetic though, and if you have kids theres a one in 10 chance of them getting it.

i looked it up for you and its posible but not very likely