If so, how do the parents deal with the fact that their offspring doesn't really look like either of them?
2007-03-02 20:15:10 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Usually, the child will be somewhere on the spectrum between the complexions of the parents, but there is no way of knowing who the child might favor.
First of all, no one is pure anything. A good example is that of the case of Sandra Lang. If you don't know who she is, google her name.
I've been doing genealogy for years and I have found many, many cases of persons (esp. in the US South) who resemble the parent of one race over that of the other. Alhtough my family is from the north, it happened in my family. My great-great-grandmother looked white, although she had a mixed ancestry. She was accepted by the whites relatives and community, but very poorly treated by her African-American relatives and their community because she looked white. Under the laws at that time, she could legally classify herself as white---which she did. She married a white man. All her children married whites---and so on and so on. If she had favored her black ancestors, she probably would've become a part of the black community.
There are several books published by people with mixed ancestries, who's families chose one race over the other or who appeared to belong to one race, even though they were mixed. .
2007-03-02 21:06:35 · answer #1 · answered by maggiebridget09 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, almost always the baby will come out somewhere in between. The baby's features will still look like each of the parents. The only thing that will be different is the exact color of skin. I would assume that the parents would be delighted over a baby that looked a bit like them and a bit like the person they love (if they love the person they had the baby with).
2007-03-02 20:28:04 · answer #2 · answered by molly mo 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe, sometimes the baby will come out light skinned...sometimes the baby will come out dark skinned. It just depends on which side the genes are stronger on...How do the parents deal? If they love their children they don't have to "deal with the fact that their offspring doesn't really look like either one of them" What a phucking racisist remark.
2007-03-02 20:30:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Different skin tones don't necessarily determine the childs complexion. I know several people who have lighter/darker children than either parent. My daughter is a perfect mix between the two of us, so it all goes back to genes. Also, the complexion difference doesn't mean the child won't look like either one of you. My daughter doesn't really look like me and that's not a problem with me. You can have children who look remarkably different than the parents even if the parents are the same race/complexion.
2007-03-02 20:21:14 · answer #4 · answered by ~Anna~ 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depends on the baby I guess! My friend is half white half black and she was born really light skin tone. Her sister was born with darker skin tone. They are both so beautiful. When you put them together tho, they don't look much like sisters! But each one has different qualities from each parent.
Your child will come out light/dark depending on which qualities he/she takes over. But no matter what the baby comes out looking like, he/she will have qualities from both parents.
2007-03-02 20:22:36 · answer #5 · answered by impossiblemama 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am white and my husband is black and yes are kids are caramel complected. Just because the skin color is a mix of both doesn't mean that they don't have our facial features. They will still look like the birth parents. Color isn't an issue so there isn't anything to deal with.
2007-03-02 22:26:41 · answer #6 · answered by c.gibbs 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
mild skinned people are frequently placed above one and all else. the merely those who're "advise" to them are the jealous ones. usually, people are nicer in the route of the mild skinned man or woman. darkish skinned people are those who're dealt with worse.
2016-11-27 01:35:48 · answer #7 · answered by zoelle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually the baby may take on certain characteristics of the parents, for example the baby may have the shape of his/her fathers head or moms lips, so regardless of the color you still love the baby because it is a part of you.
2007-03-02 20:22:03 · answer #8 · answered by joyofjoys 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, my boyfriend and I were both dark complected and our daughter's complexion is light. She has both of our features, so she does look like us. We have family members that carried the genes for a lighter complexion, just like with hair color and eye color.
2007-03-03 02:09:23 · answer #9 · answered by Cocoa 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
skin color is really sort of random.....well not completely random, my husband and i are both white im extremely light and hes medium complected....2 of our 4 children are dark.......they picked up recessive traits from us (both of us have cherokee in our families several generations back).....i have a friend who is white and her husband is african american(and extremely dark at that) and her son is lighter than my daughter
2007-03-02 21:32:49 · answer #10 · answered by CRmac 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋