I. Legal aspects
1. Marriage issues for people with mental illness
First of all, schizophrenic patients have the same rights and obligations as ordinary citizens in the matter of marriage! This is because it is difficult for patients to fulfill the obligations of family members and because those with mental illness have lost the ability to control their behavior as normal people. Therefore, it is not advisable to use the so-called “wedding” to treat psychiatric cases.
Secondly, it is not advisable to marry a patient with recurrent, poorly controlled, severe, chronically withdrawn mental illness, because the patient cannot establish and maintain a normal family life as a couple. The exception is for those in remission and with long intervals. Furthermore, patients with moderate or severe mental retardation (commonly known as imbecility and idiocy) should not marry because the patient cannot understand the essence of marriage and family.
Patients with severe epilepsy and recurrent seizures should also not marry because of the risk of impulsive behavior and harm to others and themselves. Some specific neurological and psychiatric diseases, such as patients with significant sexual or psychosexual disorders are also not suitable for marriage.
Neurosis, mild mental retardation, personality disorders, suppression, depression, etc. do not belong to the category can not be married.
2, the marriage of psychiatric patients
Mental patients who are incapacitated and cannot go through divorce procedures on their own need to be replaced by family members, unit organizations, and judicial part of the designated guardian to fulfill various legal procedures. Otherwise, the documents signed by the mentally ill person who is incapable of signing are invalid.
The spouse of a mentally ill person who files a divorce early on the grounds of “broken relationship” or “unbearable” shall bear the responsibility of proving at least the following three cases and submit them to the relevant departments for examination: the onset of mental illness and condition before marriage; the manifestation of mental activity and medical treatment at the time of marriage; the current mental status of the person’s mental health. The situation; whether the current mental state brings hindrance and harm to family life.
If a party develops mental illness after marriage, the spouse is obligated to support and care for the patient, in principle, according to the Marriage Law, which stipulates that “spouses have the obligation to support each other”, taking into account the emotional basis of their past life together. However, while considering the interests of the mentally ill person, the legitimate rights and interests of the other spouse must also be taken into account in real life. If the other party cannot bear the endless torture and suffering of the mentally ill and proposes divorce, the divorce shall be granted if the circumstances are true after investigation.
If a mentally ill person who is not suitable for marriage and his or her family conceal his or her condition from the other party before the marriage is registered, and the other party finds out and files a complaint for divorce after the marriage is registered, the court may declare the dissolution of the marriage contract at its discretion.
Second, eugenics and eugenic education
Eugenics refers to the birth of physically and mentally healthy babies and the promotion of the reproduction of physically and mentally excellent human individuals. Simply put, it also means to have a healthy, intelligent and lively child. To be eugenic, first, establish a correct concept of choosing a spouse. Second, should not marry or temporarily can not marry the object include.
1, direct blood relatives and collateral blood relatives within three generations are prohibited from marrying. This is clearly stipulated in the marriage law.
2, untreated leprosy patients are prohibited to marry.
3, both parties are suffering from schizophrenia, manic-depressive psychosis may not marry.
4, schizophrenia, manic-depressive psychosis, epilepsy treatment has not been stable for more than 2 years should not be married.
5, a variety of legal infectious diseases should not be married during quarantine treatment.
6, the two sides of the severe mental retardation patients, should not marry.
7, suffering from sexually transmitted diseases, not completely cured should not be married.