why do i have blonde blue eye children?

Question

i was talking to someone the other day and we were wondering why do i have "white" children. i am mexican american. my mother is mexican, so is my father. but even if there is spanish blood in my family (and there is aswell) it doesn't explain how i have two children who were born blonde with blue eyes. they had their blue eyes for TWO years and then now they have hazel/ green eyes. my third child looks like me, black hair, dark brown eyes and dark skin. my baby is going to be four and still has very bright blue eyes and blond hair with gold highlights! their father is dutch. pure dutch. they have no mixed race in over 100yrs maybe more. but i thought dark eyes and skin was dominent. can anyone explain how this happened! i think my kids are so gorgeous! but i want to know a scientific reason i gave birth to such blonde beauties!

don't know if i was clear but i have three out of four kids that are "white". the older two have hazel eyes and the baby has blue eyes. all light hair and white skin. the middle child is the only "dark" one. so it's triple dose of luck?? lol

Answer 1

You obviously carry a recessive gene that when combined with your husbands recessive genes produced fair haired blue eyed children.

As far as your child who has the dominant dark hair and eyes, you contributed a dominant gene and your husband a recessive so your child could also have blonde, blue eyed children as you did, or the darker ones.

Answer 2

if i am not mistaken, spanards from spain were blonde and blue eyed. What probably happened was that your family line has the recessive gene so by their father being pure dutch the lighter gene became the most prominent in your first two babies.

Dark eyes and hair are prominent only if they are pure dark, so your ancestors must have been light somewhere along the line.

Answer 3

I wonder. This is more common among Mexicans than I knew. My neighbors also have blue eyed kids- some of them don't speak English, but both parents are clearly Mexican. The kids are very beautiful - so nobody can complain. Dark hair, olive skin, blue or green eyes?? looks great.

Answer 4

Even though you have dark skin/hair/eyes, you carry the genetic information for the light hair and eyes. It's a rare thing for them to show up, but it's not impossible, so you gave them those genes, and your husband definetly contributed something very similar.

This is also why sometimes people end up with odd traits (ie, have red hair when their parents don't)

Answer 5

Genetics: dark hair, dark eyes come from dominant genes. Since you are American / Mexican you carry one dominant gene and one recessant gene. Your husband carries two recessant genes and now your children do to. They are Dutch / American. So to say

Answer 6

Because their dad is white, plain and simple, it is like a pull at the slots, what comes out comes out. Especially since you already have some white in you it makes it all the more likely that the kid will come out with fair skin.

Answer 7

If you have any spanish blood, which you say you do, his traits combined with your recessive traits. So yeah it's very likely.

Both my parents have black hair and brown eyes...and I ended up with blonde, then brown hair and green eyes.

Answer 8

Just be happy. Genes can come back for up to 16 generations. You just got a double dose of luck.

Answer 9

Well somewhere your their might be European ancestry. Also dark genes don't always dominate like people think.

Answer 10

It must be the red nose Rudolf just be thank full they didn't inherit that