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Again, I will refer back to my friend. She is very out-going, she always has been. When she was "oral" she was chatty and fun and popular (and now she is the same way in the Deaf community), she functions very well with her hearing aids and she is not genetically deaf. She turned her voice off because she wanted to. She feels that she has to struggle less if she uses ASL. She is able to understand 100% using an interpreter where as with speech-reading/listening it is more like 75%.
And for your information 95% of deaf people marry other deaf people, so it seems highly likely that your son-in-law will have a hearing loss. My friend married a Deaf man and her children turned out to be Deaf too (that is much less likely) but she cried when she found out the first child was Deaf. When I asked her why she said it was because she had never thought it was ok that she was deaf. To this day her parents can't sign more than a handful of functional signs and she has to use her voice and interpret for her husband when they are around, but whenever possible she uses a third party (ME!) to interpret and voice for her with her family.
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