Congrats on your upcoming wedding. Just a thought - when did your finance first raise this idea of not wanting children because of the possibility of passing down a stuttering "problem"? I ask because many people (especially stutters) can get super stressed out about upcoming weddings and dread delivering a speech. They can be fixated on their stutter and mentally blow it up and out of proportion. I would revisit this topic after the wedding personally. Unlike me, neither of my parents stutter, nor do either of my kids stutter. After reading the comments, it's clear that there *can* be some sort of link between multiple family members who stutter. The University of Rochester indicates that stuttering *may* be passed down (link below) but still researchers don't know what causes it. [https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=90&contentid=p02290](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=90&contentid=p02290) I stuttered horribly as a child but it got better in time - when my SO and I were thinking of having kids, we didn't even address the stutter and passing it down. Everyone has various aliments, issues and struggles, and truthfully out of all the things to have, I'll happily take stuttering any day of the week. ​