When a baby is born is the baby half and half of the parents, or is it 3/4 of what the father is?

Question

because in the Jewish culture the baby is what the mother is and not the father, so I'm just wondering in our culture are we what are father is and not so much the mother.

Answer 1

As far as I know, we consider it 1/2 and 1/2.

Answer 2

The baby's genes are half Mother and Half Father. In Jewish Culture, if the mother is Jewish, then the baby is Jewish. Religion and genes are 2 different things all together.

"Jewish identity is passed on via the mother. If the mother is Jewish, the child is 100% Jewish. This is true regardless of who the father is, and whether he is Jewish or not, and regardless of whether the Jewish mother practiced another religion. That is the unwavering rule. At the same time, if someone's father is Jewish (but not the mother), then the child is 100% NOT Jewish.

Jewish identity passed on through the mother has been universally accepted by Jews for 3,000 years, and was decided by God, as recorded in the Five Books of Moses in Deut. 7:3-4. The Talmud (Kiddushin 68b) explains how this law is evident from those passages. According to Jewish law, this will remain the person's status forever. There is no way one can lose his status as a Jew even if he thinks he has gone so far as to convert to another religion!

Therefore, if your mother's mother's mother was Jewish, then you would also be considered Jewish. "

Answer 3

If you are speaking in terms of DNA, it depends. It is all about what DNA has been passed on to the child. When a paternity test is established you can see where some of the DNA matches the mother and some matches the father.

In terms of religion, it is up to you what your child is. That is the great thing about America. Just know that when the child gets into the teen years it is likely he/she will choose a religious path. Some times this decision is directed by your preference, and there are times where a child will completely rebel from their parents wishes.

If I had to give you a clear cut answer, your child would generally start life as an even mix between the religious preference of you and your significant other unless otherwise discussed between you and your mate.

Just a personal note, don't read to much into it. That is really something that can be easily decided. Babies are born into Catholicism and Baptized the next week.

Answer 4

A normal baby recieves exactly half its genes from its father and exactly half from its mother, so in that sense yes they are half and half precisely.

However, that's not accounting for the fact that the mother and father may share some genetic patterns, or that one may have repeated genetic patterns. That is to say, if you start compressing the information (which is not something biological organisms do, but theoretically you could still do a simulation of it with computer programs) you might find that more actual information came from one parent then from the other. Also, there is the factor of dominant genes; the child of an oriental and a blond, blue-eyed european would almost certainly have black hair and brown eyes, because those are the dominant genes.

Answer 5

okay, when a child is born that child, by tradition, is to take on the fathers last name. Just like in marriage the woman takes the mans last name, but in all reality if the mother for instance I have a son that I would say is Spanish and I have a daughter that I would say is white. Only because they have two different fathers. I am half white and half Spanish, my sons father is full Spanish so that would make my son mainly Spanish because he is 75 % Spanish and 25% white, my daughter is white because the same issue, her father is white so she is opposite of my son she is 75% white and 25% Spanish. So it really just depends on the background of each person involved during conception.

Answer 6

I have nothing against the Jewish faith (in fact I rather like their way of doing things) but you're looking at religion over science. Only the dominant genes will prevail in the child. They say that baldness comes from the mother's side of the family but my mothers brothers, father and one sister were totally bald on top. My father had a receding hair line and I have a receding hair line. It's all in the dominant genes.

Answer 7

I'm not sure of how it works in different cultures, but I've always heard that traditionally, a baby takes the mothers religion and the fathers last name.

Answer 8

Genetically speaking, it depends on how dominate each gene is. If the father has brown eyes, and the mother blue... The baby will likely have brown eyes, because that gene is more dominant, and so it goes with all of the genes that the parents pass along.

Answer 9

I thought in the Jewish culture that the children were of the father and through the mother. There was clean and unclean and that pertained to who the father had children with, and who he was married to and her back ground, and that reflected in the children....

Anyway, in our culture things like that just arent important. Its considered half and half.

Answer 10

Mmk first of all if you paid attention in school you would know that
1. Babies get 23 chromosomes from mom and 23 from dad.
2. It depends on whom has the "dominat" characteristics. such as if you have dark hair and dark eyes and mom has blonde hair and blue eyes the baby is more likely to have dark hair and dark eyes. although the baby will still have the recessive trait from mom in the DNA the dominant trait will show up.

Answer 11

my little brother is a million/2 chinese language, a million/2 white (my dad remarried). he's an incredibly amazing infant and im virtually jealous of his effective components. the chinese language genes will definately be noticable regardless of the undeniable fact that the caucasian additionally would be rather aparent. his hair and pores and epidermis could be a splash lighter looking on what caucasian effective components are dropped on the table