>you even want to convince others that people who stutter can't ever be happy And where exactly did I say that? Stuttering people can have very happy lives, take a look at samuel Jackson,emily blunt, bruce willis, etc. Your kid might be one of them, good for them. But the odds are against him. Odds are he will be a regular stuttering person, and lifes of stuttering people are generally pretty hard, compared to those of non stutterers. Why would you want to risk bringing someone into a world that they might hate? Because YOU want a kid, and you don't care whether THEY'll enjoy life or hate it, the only important thing is you get to have a mini you, a person to love, to care for, to raise, etc. That's selfish and immoral in my opinion.