How Is It Possible For Black Parents To Have A White Biological Child???

Question

My best friend is black and she is married to a black man. They have 2 children that obviously look like their of African ancestry. Their 3rd child their youngest came out looking completely caucasian. They at first believed that wasn't their child and took several paternity test that all came out positive with them being the parents of that child. It made no sense since the baby looks like the average white baby blonde strait hair, white skin, small lips, and big blue eyes. The parents don't have any of these features at all and their not even light skinned black people they are dark skinned black people. The doctor told them that their child isn't albino and may get darker when he gets older. Well he's 7 years old right now and looks nothing likes his parents or his older siblings. He doesn't even look biracial he looks pure white there's nothing about him that looks like he's black. Well he's obviously black since both of his parents are. So how did this happen?

Answer 1

It is entirely possible but extremely rare for this to happen. Both parents must have white ancestors not so far back in their family. It would appear that the "white" DNA hooked up this time. There are some documented cases of twins where one baby is black and the other white (two particularly darling ones in England come to mind) and there was one case in South Africa where white parents had an obviously black child - they had some serious problems because of apartheid.

Answer 2

Recessive genes. I have read articles that families have broken up over because they do not believe the tests, but what bothers me is if 2 people are married and they trust each other completely their child is FIRST, and they must make the little one feel comfortable in the world by explaining things early on. I am trying to look up an article I read some years ago where a couple had twins, in looks they were exact except for the skin tone. Me and my siblings were clearly our heritage, but my nieces and nephews were blond, blue/green eyed light skinned which we traced to our grandmother. Yeah I want to go back in the past and see how some of my ancestors interacted with others, nations. It happens more and more now a days, BUT the most important thing is letting our children know they are loved.

Answer 3

Skin color, as with every other gene in the DNA has many options.

Your skin could be black, caucasian, or other colors.

Your own skin is a reflection of your phenotype within your gene. Your phenotype is your physical represention of yourself for that gene. While your phenotype is black, your genotype may be caucasion. No one would know your genotype is white unless you and your partner both donated your genotype (caucasian) to your offspring.

For a detailed example of this, Mendel (the plant scientist) in the 1880's, first proved the phonotype of the individual is not necessary the complete genotype of the same individual with plants that he grew in his garden.

He did not know about DNA, but he did scientifically prove that phonotype and genotype were not always identical.

There are also documented cases with the animal kingdom where parents produce offsping that does not match their phenotype.

Another issue along the same lines. There is now scientific evidence that DNA is only 99.99999999999 percent accurate.

There is a case where one mother is DNA-considered the aunt of her own child. This is explained that the mother's birth was the combination of twins into one baby at the type of hew own conception. The common issue is that one egg splits into two to form identical twins. She is the one known case in all of DNA history that two eggs, (her and her sister) combined into one egg. The mother.

Her issue was only found because that mother failed a paternity test for her own child. She then had another child to have a DNA test performed in the hospital 1 minute after birth to prove that it was her child and the DNA was now only considered 99.9999999999 percent acurrate.

Answer 4

Recesive genes. If both parents carried the same set of recessive genes, the possibilty of just this sort of think happening is there. It's an extreme case, to be sure, but you'll see minor versions of it in other families: for instance my sister has 4 children with dark brown/black hair and either brown or dark hazel eyes, and one with blond curly hair and blue eyes.

Answer 5

Actually it is happening more often (rare, but true).
Everyone carries recessive genes, and the rare mixture of having 2 parents with the same recessive gene and becoming pregnant at the right time produces these anomalies.

There is a website that supports this anomaly. Where 2 black parents gave birth (naturally pregnancy) to twin girls - one black, one white. you can google it they are from England. There is also another couple from Australia who gave birth to twin boys - same thing.

Answer 6

In their Ancestry they have Caucasian and every now and then it happens, it is a rare occurrence, just like two White people have a Black child it is because somewhere in the family their was black

Answer 7

maybe the baby inhereted genes from his ancestors..i kinda feel bad for the kid i bet all the other kids say hes adopted since his parents are black and hes white

Answer 8

"took several paternity test that all came out positive with them being the parents of that child"..that's just what they told you. Doesn't mean it's true.

Answer 9

It can be the side effect of any medicine or any specific food mother ate during her pregnency for example fish.

Answer 10

What this is called is being a product of a recessive gene