This has always been one of my pet peeves with MS. Just a few years ago when I was diagnosed it was rare to find much information and the few articles I did find were, imo, insultingly optimistic. Since it is such a charged topic when this topic came up on the boards it often resulted in hurt feelings rather than productive dialog.

My personal thoughts are that since MS strikes young women of childbearing years and until recently there was nothing to offer us the Docs were relieved not to have any research to back what only makes sense, to me...that there is often a familial link.

We can make our own decisions about whether or not to have children, if we haven't been blessed with them already, but rather than just gloss over it we have the need and the right to know more realistic stats on the possibility of passing it on even if it never happens.

I truly believe that accepting and thoroughly researching this connection, that is present in so many families, is one of the keys to making advances. Its about time.