[collinsfriend]

My son's friend growing up was raised by his grandmother. His mother and possibly father are institutionalized for schiz. He was fairly normal, a little quiet growing up. At 18 it hit. It was very sad to watch. His grandmother died, his uncle and aunt stole his inheritance (they were already rich) and he gradually lost touch with himself. He started by staring for hours (catatonic) then he would drive his car until he ran out of gas in a town he didn't know. He started showing interest in "girlfriends"-5-10 year olds. He was arrested on new years eve walking naked in another town, (released by mental heath hours before) to bring in the real new year. He thinks my son is satan and he is supposed to worship him. This of course disturbs my married with a daughter, son and us. In any case he is institutionalized now as he can't function and is dangerous, especially to young girls, or anyone he thinks is an enemy of satan. He has attacked a friend for objecting to him staring at him for 2-3 hours. He tries to contact my son many times a day for several years now. If you have a lot of money and good onsurance and a lot of patience and good mental health providers in case of the worst case senario, then adoption may be a good thing for all of you. It may not affect the child, but you should be educated and finacially able to cope well and manage if the worst does happen.