Editing Genain quadruplets (section)

==Personal lives==
The sisters were born in a midwestern American town (nicknamed "Envira") on April 14, 1930.<ref name=pmid10993407>{{cite journal |title=A 39-Year Followup of the Genain Quadruplets |last1=Mirsky |first1=A. F. |last2=Bieliauskas |first2=L. A. |last3=French |first3=L. M. |last4=Van Kammen |first4=D. P. |last5=Jonsson |first5=E. |last6=Sedvall |first6=G. |name-list-style=amp |journal=[[Schizophrenia Bulletin]] |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=699–708 |year=2000 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.schbul.a033487 |pmid=10993407|doi-access=free }}</ref> They were considered local celebrities due to the quadruple nature of their birth.<ref name=pmid10993407/> The four sisters grew up with their parents in the same household. The Genain sisters' parents were described as "disturbed".<ref name="barlow" /> Their paternal grandmother may have had schizophrenia with paranoid symptoms, and their father was described as abusive. Myra and Nora were probably treated more favorably by their parents, while Iris and Hester were treated more harshly.<ref name="pmid10993407" /> The parents considered Hester to be a "habitual masturbator"<ref name="barlow" /> and referred to her as a "moron type" or "sex maniac".<ref name="pmid10993407" /> Iris and Hester were both [[female genital mutilation|circumcised]] as children in order to prevent them from masturbation.<ref name="doctoring">{{cite book |last=Bentall |first=Richard P. |author-link=Richard Bentall |date=2009 |title=Doctoring the Mind: Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail |location=London, UK |publisher=Allen Lane |isbn=978-0-71399-889-4}} {{pn|date=June 2017}}</ref><ref name="pmid10993407" /> The quadruplets were reportedly physically abused by their father, given the pseudonym ''Mr. Genain''. Subsequently, the Genains accepted an offer by the [[National Institute of Mental Health|NIMH]] to take the daughters into their clinic and each was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

All of the sisters except Hester graduated from high school.<ref name="pmid10993407" /> Myra worked as a secretary for most of her life. She married and had two sons.<ref name="pmid10993407" /> When she grew older, she frequently visited her sisters Nora and Hester. Her eldest son contracted [[AIDS]] after a blood transfusion and died in 1996, while her younger son became a maintenance worker and retained a close relationship with his mother.<ref name="pmid10993407" /> Nora later managed the income the sisters received for having their photograph published in textbooks.<ref name="pmid10993407" /> Iris worked as a beautician for a while but most of her adult life was spent institutionalized.<ref name="duncan">{{cite journal |last1=Duncan |first1=Connie |date=1 January 2013 |title=The Genain Quadruplets: A 55-year follow-up of two of four monozygous sisters with schizophrenia |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278328389 |journal=[[Schizophrenia Research]] |doi=10.1016/j.schres.2013.06.011 |s2cid=44156366 |accessdate=5 January 2018}}</ref>