Then again, mothers act badly all the time. Perhaps the bigger issue is that bad parenting is the problem, schizoaffective disorder or not. I might damage my future children in a way that has nothing to do with mania, depression, or psychosis. Or I might compensate for my neurological defects by being an especially good mother—one who reads stacks of parenting literature and educates her children early on about odd behavior that might come up at home.
