Why is my son white with blonde hair, but is half black and a quarter hispanic?

Question

I am black and White, His father is Black and HIspanic. His half brother's mother is really pale white, but he is darker. Because of this, his father doubts that he is his. Can any one come up with a good explination as to why my son is soo lightskinned? He even looks like his father, but white. Someone please provide me with facts to gve this ignorant man.

I am black and White, His father is Black and HIspanic. His half brother's mother is really pale white, but he is darker. Because of this, his father doubts that he is his. Can any one come up with a good explination as to why my son is soo lightskinned? He even looks like his father, but white. Someone please provide me with facts to gve this ignorant man




He was the only man I was with in a 7 month peroid. I have no doubts he is his father. I can not afforrd a test, otherwise I would have done it. He is my fiance, but voices his opinion to everyone else, and I want to leave him because of it

Answer 1

It's due to recessive genes. Your son's father must have some recessive genes that combined with your own recessive genes to allow him to be blonde. Your son's father isn't blonde himself because the recessive genes are not expressed due to dominant genes for darker coloring.

Answer 2

I'd say he's right and you're a whorebag.

But, in the odd case you didn't nail every guy in the neighborhood, its possible for color to skip several generations. My best friend is Black, dark black. both of his parents are white. when he was born hi father was outraged but took him as his own. come to find out after a paternity test he was infact his blood born child. His great grandfather was the product of an african american woman and white man. you'd never know by looking at good ol dad, but he was half black. this could be the case with you. The only difference between a hispanic and a white is for the most part culture. so with both of you being "half" white, I'd say you're ok.

Answer 3

With the occurence of recombination during Meiosis, there are so many different combinations of genes that an individual can end up having. Your son apparently has the phenotypic color of w white american, this is because those are the genes he received during meiosis. Mariah Carey who is 1/2 black, 1/2 white and looks white. Halle Berry is 1/2 black, 1/2 white and looks black. With multi-racial individuals you can not guess what someone will look like. I suggest you get a paternity test to resolve this issue.

Answer 4

Most black people outside of Africa are some mixture of African, European and whatever native tribes are indigenous to the area. This is also true of many hispanic people.This is one of the reasons why black folks and Hispanic folks come in so many colors.

Being aware of this likely mixture, it really isn't hard to see how genes for lighter colored skin could show up. As others have said, it is most likely a pairing of recessive genes.

Answer 5

Since you say the boy is blond rather then having
white hair it is presumably due to a rare combination of recessive genes carried by both]parents. Since more than one pair of genes
controls skin color this can happen. If he had
white hair and pink eyes it would be a case of
albinism, which could also happen. A rare mutation
in the skin color genes of either parent could also
have occurred.

Answer 6

firstly - you don't say how old your son is but the colour you are as a baby - especially in mixed race children is not an indicator of the colour you turn out to be. Blond hair often goes dark.

Secondly - genes for colour are very complicated and you are both mixed race so there is chances that it could be this colour.

My aunt whos white married a jamaican man has given birth to two children one who looks "white" and one who looks mixed race. Many of their cousins on the jamican side are mixed race and they have every skin colour between them from chocolate to milky.

My mum childminded a mixed race boy who started off with quite pale skin that later turned darker.

Nature always surprises us.

Answer 7

I don't think this situation calls for a genetics lesson so much as it calls for a paternity test. The father is likely aware of your family and your history, he just thinks that you're a tramp and you sleep around. He doesn't want to get saddled with some other guy's kid, so your job here is to prove that is indeed his child.

For future reference, before you start spitting out babies, either get married or get into a relationship in which you and your partner are in a trusting, monogamous relationship. It'll spare you the circus of trying to come up with some half-****** Red Herring about genetics to argue.

Answer 8

A DNA test will explain everything. I have a little cousin who is black and only one quarter white and has hair that's just as blonde as any white persons hair. He his brown skinned (like will smiths color) with really bright blonde hair. Sometimes genetics just work out in an odd way i guess... tell your kids dad to stop making excuses.

Answer 9

The answers about recessive genes are accurate. Let's HOPE that the child hasn't picked up the dumb gene from either one of his parents! OMIGOSH, poor baby -- having his father doubt in this way, and you too! You've got a real Prince Charming . . . this man of yours.

Answer 10

It's all a matter of which genes expressed their dominance at conception. If his father doesn't believe it's his son, spend a few bucks and have a DNA test done.


Doug