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June 1993 (Volume 71)
Quarterly Article
Allan V. Horwitz
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The majority of seriously mentally ill people are unmarried and cannot obtain support from spouses or children. Help from parents is time limited. In the absence of spouses and parents, siblings are often the closest relations for many seriously mentally ill people, but their potentially supportive role has rarely been examined. This article reports results from a pilot study of 108 siblings with seriously mentally ill brothers and sisters. The findings indicate that siblings had regular contact and positive relationships with their ill sibs. Furthermore, most were willing to increase their current amount of support. Sibling support was greater when both parents were not alive, resulting in the increased importance of siblings over the life course. Policy makers, mental health professionals, and researchers should pay more attention to the question of sibling support.
Author(s): Allan V. Horwitz
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Volume 71, Issue 2 (pages 323–339) Published in 1993
