ther, or being placed in a foster home and not having a stable family life can also have a tremendous effect on the development of this disease. School problems can affect the risk also. If a student has a short attention span, a poor short-term memory or a high level of anger can be a main sign of developing schizophrenia later in life. This is because the extra stress in his or her life, due to family or school related problems could put a strain of the child’s life, causing a higher risk of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia runs in the families mainly. Ten people out of one hundred who have the schizophrenic gene will get the disease if their mother or father has the disease. If the mother and father both have the disease, the chances for developing the disease is doubled and will most likely have schizophrenia later in life. Someone who inherits a schizophrenia gene has an average one-in-three chance of actually developing the disease. Ten to fifteen percent of schizophrenics have the disease in their immediate family. Some psychologists believe that some people inherit the disease by the way a child is raised. The environment that the child is raised in can affect the disease because the child may have a hard time adjusting or dealing with the negative influences in his or her life. If the parents have the disease, then they are more likely to raise the child in a way that he or she will most like develop it. By the way the child is nurtured or the nature in which they are raised is a major factor in whether or not the child will develop schizophrenia. Researchers have found that if one of the two identical twins has schizophrenia there is a thirty five to sixty percent chance the other twin will develop the disease also (Cookson). Whereas in fraternal twins, if one of the two has schizophrenia, there is only a ten to fifteen percent chance the other twin will develop the disease (Cookson).Schizophrenia is a difficul...
