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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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Jac Carr 1 week ago
My now dark haired best friend was abandoned at birth by his dad because he was born with blond hair; men can be the biggest piles of garbage sometimes as well as intellectual dumbasses
Binky Melnik 1 week ago
No fooling! And he needed to “recover” upon finding out it was his child, yet AGAIN abandoning wife and baby to run back to his harridan? Holy c**p! Aside from the verbal assaults, lack of trust, being a raging d**k, and having a harpy for a mother, he was apparently too stupid to understand the simple chart with composed of four squares that explained genetics to us in school. If she hasn’t divorced him, I say we form a squad, locate her, and force a divorce to save her from this. (I’ll never forget my Irish friends, a married couple with strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes, and white eyelashes. She was pregnant, he was working in the US and ran back to Ireland for the birth. He reappeared the next day. I feigned interest in the baby and he pulled out a photo … of a very clearly black baby with a LOTTA hair. Didn’t know what to say (maybe they had black grandparents or something?) but I understood when he cried. At least I knew that the grandparents mightta been black!
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Ace 1 week 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?
Ben Aziza 5 days ago
Yeh it is most likely projection. Also in some rare occasions it can be insecurity and i mean severe stuff cus of past bad experiences. Still, it is never an excuse, one should not think of marriage if they are like that.
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KatSaidThat 1 week ago
I think he was "mortified" at the result because he was cheating and was hoping for an easy way out of his marriage.
Jac Carr 1 week ago
My now dark haired best friend was abandoned at birth by his dad because he was born with blond hair; men can be the biggest piles of garbage sometimes as well as intellectual dumbasses
Binky Melnik 1 week ago
No fooling! And he needed to “recover” upon finding out it was his child, yet AGAIN abandoning wife and baby to run back to his harridan? Holy c**p! Aside from the verbal assaults, lack of trust, being a raging d**k, and having a harpy for a mother, he was apparently too stupid to understand the simple chart with composed of four squares that explained genetics to us in school. If she hasn’t divorced him, I say we form a squad, locate her, and force a divorce to save her from this. (I’ll never forget my Irish friends, a married couple with strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes, and white eyelashes. She was pregnant, he was working in the US and ran back to Ireland for the birth. He reappeared the next day. I feigned interest in the baby and he pulled out a photo … of a very clearly black baby with a LOTTA hair. Didn’t know what to say (maybe they had black grandparents or something?) but I understood when he cried. At least I knew that the grandparents mightta been black!
Load More Replies... Ace 1 week 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?
Ben Aziza 5 days ago
Yeh it is most likely projection. Also in some rare occasions it can be insecurity and i mean severe stuff cus of past bad experiences. Still, it is never an excuse, one should not think of marriage if they are like that.
Load More Replies... KatSaidThat 1 week ago
I think he was "mortified" at the result because he was cheating and was hoping for an easy way out of his marriage.
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