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When I was born, and for most of my childhood, I had light skin. But then as time I went on, my skin began to darken (because of not using sunscreen), and, although this sounds bad, I started to become a bit depressed. I like the look of light skin over dark skin, but I'm not a racist as I don't discriminate based on skin color.
Let me get to my question. If I had a child with a light-skinned woman, would our child still come out dark because of the darkening of my skin, or does that not tie into the genes that I'll pass onto my child? I'm guessing that it won't because I inherited most of my mother's physical traits (with the exception of a few noted below), but recessive genes aren't eliminated but supressed, leaving them a chance to spring back up in another generation.
It sounds like a dumb question, and it is, but it's one that I can't answer, and I don't know how to search for this specific question on Google. But because I don't talk to anyone on my father's side of the family (my father is dark-skinned), and because I felt out of place at most family gatherings (for being darker than everyone on my mother's side of the family), I was hoping maybe the chances of me having a light-skinned baby would still be really high to keep my child from feeling alienated like I did.
Here's some extra information about me in case this would affect anything:
- I adopted most of my mother's physical features except hair. Everyone on her side of the family has straight brown hair, and I have curly black hair.
- My mother is between 12 - 15 on that skin color scale up there, and my father is between 27 - 30. I was born somewhere in between 12 - 15, but now I'm in between 24 - 27.
Please remember that the talk page is for discussion of ways to improve the article itself, not general discussion of the article's topic. Ketsuekigata ( talk) 14:50, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
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When I was born, and for most of my childhood, I had light skin. But then as time I went on, my skin began to darken (because of not using sunscreen), and, although this sounds bad, I started to become a bit depressed. I like the look of light skin over dark skin, but I'm not a racist as I don't discriminate based on skin color.
Let me get to my question. If I had a child with a light-skinned woman, would our child still come out dark because of the darkening of my skin, or does that not tie into the genes that I'll pass onto my child? I'm guessing that it won't because I inherited most of my mother's physical traits (with the exception of a few noted below), but recessive genes aren't eliminated but supressed, leaving them a chance to spring back up in another generation.
It sounds like a dumb question, and it is, but it's one that I can't answer, and I don't know how to search for this specific question on Google. But because I don't talk to anyone on my father's side of the family (my father is dark-skinned), and because I felt out of place at most family gatherings (for being darker than everyone on my mother's side of the family), I was hoping maybe the chances of me having a light-skinned baby would still be really high to keep my child from feeling alienated like I did.
Here's some extra information about me in case this would affect anything:
- I adopted most of my mother's physical features except hair. Everyone on her side of the family has straight brown hair, and I have curly black hair.
- My mother is between 12 - 15 on that skin color scale up there, and my father is between 27 - 30. I was born somewhere in between 12 - 15, but now I'm in between 24 - 27.
Please remember that the talk page is for discussion of ways to improve the article itself, not general discussion of the article's topic. Ketsuekigata ( talk) 14:50, 10 April 2008 (UTC)