if two left handed people have a child... will all there children be left handed? why or why not?

Question

just wondering...

Answer 1

my husband and i are both left handed(we both come from right handed parents)
It is NOT learned behaviour,just what comes naturally.
My eldest son is right handed and my youngest is left handed.Basically from the day they would touch and pick up things they showed dominance in which hand they preferred.
Some of the above posts are CLUELESS and obviously have no children of their own!

Answer 2

Nope. They will likely have both a left handed and right handed child. It is very unusual actually to have a whole family of just left handed people.

According to an episode on Discovery Health, there is some thought that lefthandedness that is not clearly inherited from family, may be due to mirror image twins (one twin is right handed, the other is left handed, always). This implies that most mirage image twins don't survive except as singletons. Given the frequency of disappearing twin syndrome, that would seem reasonable. However, since there are no surviving twins in the extended families of most left handed people I know of, I'm not sure I buy it, but it does have some plausability and is likely the case in some families. We have inherited lefthandedness. There's a few in every generation. I started off left-handed and apparently a head injury at 5 changed my handedness. I can actually write with either hand, but clearly my right is more dominant. Home movies do show this. Weird.

Answer 3

This is not just a learned behavior. There is something in someones brain that makes it easier to write with one hand over the other. While it can be learned to use the right hand, you will usually see early on that a baby has a 'dominant' hand that they prefer to use.

But no, it's not guaranteed that the baby will be left handed.

Answer 4

Well my mother and father were both right handed and me and my brother ended up being left handed. It is an inhereted trait, the way you are taught can effect it but its not what causes it. Me and my husband are both left handed and my 2 year old is showing right handed dominancy.

Answer 5

Whomever said it was a learned trait above is wrong. It's definitely inherited, but left-handedness is the "weak" trait and right-handedness is the strong one.

My husband and I both have left-handed tendencies. (He was forced to switch to right as a child by a domineering grandmother; I'm ambidextrous). Our son is lefty but insists on writing right-handed even though we've demonstrated left-handedness to him and welcomed it. He does everything left but write. He even draws & colors lefty. Our first daughter is decidedly right handed and it's a little early to tell with the youngest, but she looks righty, too.

My sister and her husband are both lefty but all three of their kids are righty.

My parents are both righty and they had two lefties and two righties.

Answer 6

There is a possibility that their child can be left or right handed. Me and my child's father are both right handed and out 3 yr old is a lefty...

Answer 7

no becaause manny people might change different things 4 ex: uhave a mole on ur left leg she/he might not have there and have it on the left hand

Answer 8

its not an inherited trait, its a learned behavior....