where $dot{W}$ is a white noise on $[0,1]$, $xi$ and $eta$ are random variables, and $f$ and $g$ are continuous real-valued functions. This is the stochastic analogue of the deterministic two point boundary-value problem, which is a classical example of bifurcation. We find that if $f$ and $g$ are affine, there is no bifurcation: for any r.v. $xi$ and $eta$, (0) has a unique solution a.s. However, as soon as $f$ is non-linear, bifurcation appears. We investigate the question of when there is either no solution whatsoever, a unique solution, or multiple solutions. We give examples to show that all these possibilities can arise. While our results involve conditions on $f$ and $g$, we conjecture that the only case in which there is no bifurcation is when $f$ is affine.

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