How Much Must I Give Up for My Schizophrenic Brother? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/06/magazine/ethics-schizophrenic-family.html How Much Must I Give Up for My Schizophrenic Brother? The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on weighing a sibling’s needs against your own — and more. Credit...Illustration by Tomi Um July 6, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET I am in my 60s and have been married for decades. One of my brothers is moderately schizophrenic; he does well on his medication but is increasingly unable to live alone. He and I are not close and are very different people, but when our mother went into a nursing home several years ago, he came to live with my wife and me. Several other siblings living close declined to take him in.