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Man Freaks Out Over Baby’s Hair Color, Wife Laughs In His Face When Paternity Test Results Come In
When you’re waiting for your child to come into this world, there’s a lot of guessing about what they are going to look like.
But after this Redditor gave birth to a blue-eyed bundle of joy with blonde hair, her husband was shocked: how could this be if both parents were brunettes?
The woman tried to explain that it was just genetics playing a trick on them, but her partner didn’t listen and chose to take a paternity test instead.
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Soon-to-be-parents often try to imagine what their baby is going to look like
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But this woman’s husband couldn’t believe their child could have blue eyes and blond hair, so he asked for a paternity test
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The color of our hair is written in our genes
The OP shared that she tried talking some sense into her husband, saying that it was genetics that led to the unexpected color of the baby’s hair. The husband didn’t want to listen, but the Redditor was right: because of our genes that are passed down from generation to generation, children might be born with hair or eye colors the parents didn’t expect.
According to LunaDNA, the color of one’s hair is determined by two types of pigment, eumelanin and pheomelanin; an abundance of the former results in darker, brown or black hair, while the latter colors the hair orange or red. Every person’s hair contains some eumelanin—the darker pigment—low levels of which result in lighter hair, while high levels lead to darker colors.
The fascinating ways our bodies are programmed mean that people with an abundance of tightly packed eumelanin will have black hair, while those with tightly packed pheomelanin will have red hair. (As a matter of fact, the latter is reportedly the rarest hair color in the world, with Ireland and Scotland being the countries where you are most likely to meet individuals with fire-colored hair.) As for blondes, they usually boast a very small and thinly dispersed amount of eumelanin.
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Why children don’t always look like their parents
Even though hair color is inherited and passed down through a person’s DNA, certain gene variations can determine that it differs from that of both of the little one’s parents. A child typically receives 46 chromosomes—23 from their mom and 23 from their dad—which determine their looks. However, sometimes parents unknowingly carry an unexpressed hair color gene that they can pass to their child. That’s why sometimes the color of a child’s hair differs not only from their parents’, but from their siblings’, too.
For the OP’s husband, such a lack of resemblance was a cause for concern, to such an extent that he even asked for a paternity test. For one reason or another, millions of people seemingly do so every year, as by 2017 the number of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests exceeded 30 million globally.
In the Redditor’s case, the test results proved that what she was saying was the truth; hence, the “I told you so.” And even though she soon started wondering if she was a jerk for uttering these words, fellow Redditors in the comments made sure to let her know that she wasn’t.
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People who read the story didn’t hold back their opinions on the father’s reaction
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Ace 11 hours ago
I've read on here and other places that accusations of infidelity are often a sign that the accuser has been cheating. Certainly a sign that all was not well with this relationship. Anyway, it's a 2-y-o post - what are the chances that they are still together?
Bryn 6 hours ago
Unless the user updates the post with a new user name, we'll probably never know. I went and looked and the post under the original username has been banned.
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Jac Carr 10 hours ago
To "get his own back" because he still won't be able to comprehend basic biology and will still think something's shady. I hope she leaves him and he watches from a distance as the child's hair & eyes turn darker
Load More Replies... Ace 11 hours ago
I've read on here and other places that accusations of infidelity are often a sign that the accuser has been cheating. Certainly a sign that all was not well with this relationship. Anyway, it's a 2-y-o post - what are the chances that they are still together?
Bryn 6 hours ago
Unless the user updates the post with a new user name, we'll probably never know. I went and looked and the post under the original username has been banned.
Load More Replies... Jac Carr 10 hours ago
To "get his own back" because he still won't be able to comprehend basic biology and will still think something's shady. I hope she leaves him and he watches from a distance as the child's hair & eyes turn darker
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