Would you consider adopting a child that could possibly have a mental illness?

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One of my adopted children's biological mother is paranoid schizophrenic. My daughter is not. She is now 20 years old and expecting her first child. During most of her pregnancy she had considered giving her baby up for adoption and was working with a private adoption agency to find an adoptive couple. Because of her bio-mother's mental illness history there is a very small chance that her child could become schizophrenic. She has now decided to keep her baby, but while working with the adoption agency one couple after another after another said that they would not adopt her child because of the mental illness history. Although I do understant that not everybody would want to deal with a mentally ill child, I was really very surprised at how many people would not consider adopting this child for fear of having a child with a mental illness. Would you consider adopting a child that could possibly develop a mental illness?