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Childhood characteristics, rated “blind” from maternal retrospective reports, were compared for 44 young adult psychiatric inpatients and their “normal” siblings. Patients differed significantly from siblings on several childhood variables and had poorer overall childhood adjustments. Those with the most deviant childhood histories had significantly earlier onsets of psychiatric illness.
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