If i married a fair skinned man(my irish boyfriend)? my father has olive skin but all his children have blue eyes and fair skin.
I would really like to know!
It depends on what kind of recessive genes your husband has. Its possible if one of his parents also has more olive skin.
Maybe. Genetics are complicated. For example, stepdad’s parents are pretty fair, as are his siblings. But my stepdad looks like his Basque grandmother! He’s darker than the rest of his family. he has two daughters-- one resembles him very strongly, while the other is a mix of him and her mom.
And erm… Why does it matter?
I want them to look like me… just a bit at least. I suppose it doesn’t really matter…
Well my current boyfriend has mostly irish family.
[name]Just[/name] an observation, but you seem to be unnaturally concerned with skin color. I don’t understand why it matters what shade or what undertone your skin is? It’s kind of weird and makes me a little uncomfortable, because I can’t tell what you’re getting at or your motives behind asking questions like these.
There was a Nigerian (I think) family in the UK who had a very light-skinned baby last year. There’s honestly no way to tell. Your children can look like you without being the same color as you. My mom is blonde, but I have brown hair. Our facial structure is almost identical! I got my dad’s nose (unfortunately).
Kids can be a mix of their parents’ skin tones, darker than both, or lighter than both. I fell into that last category.
Edit: I agree with Rowan. I was hoping it was just me, but apparently not! I’d never base my decision to have kids on what superficial features they might have…though I really want a ginger baby. But if I ended up marrying someone from Namibia (or wherever lol), I’d be perfectly happy with dark-skinned, dark-haired, dark-eyed kids.
Oh wow, when I first read it, I thought you were hoping your children might look like your father because you adore him or something. Now, I am a little nervous about your question. Why does it matter at all?
Um if you are referring to a post a made about whether my skin was too pale would you then be insinuating that i suffer from some kind of ‘self hatred’ because i am not olive toned??? (And i am just curious about what my children will be like.)
Genetics are a funny thing. You just never know. I really hope it is an innocent “what will my babies look like” question and not anything else, because I agree with rge… it’s a weird question.
Wow people really can find something out of a whole lot of nothing to chastise someone with!
Most of us are in the US, and racism is a HUGE (beyond huge) issue here. Your questions and comments are very strange.
You’ve edited it out now, but you said something about “at least my father is (eastern) European.” That rubs me the wrong way.
Ohh right that obession with ‘political correctness’. Some times it goes a bit far don’t you think, like as soon as someone say’s something that ‘might’ be un-politically correct they jump on you. I for one think it’s forcing your idea’s down other people’s throats, that rubs me the wrong way…
that was an unnecessary piece of imformation that’s all, though my boyfriend considers it important, and just beacuse YOU in [name]America[/name] feel this way don’t expect everyone over the pond to!
I don’t think leona here is saying “dear God, let them be pale.” In fact the opposite-- she said “I hope there is a little of me in there.”
Human skin color is inherited in a blended fashion-- usually. A black woman and a white man have a child, and that child’s skin tone is halfway in between.
However, things get interesting in the second generation. Because even though the expression of the trait is blended, the genes themselves obviously stay completely intact. So if a biracial woman and a biracial man have a child, that child can look exactly like them, it can look 100% like one race, or 100% like the other. Here’s a great example which others are referencing, very dissimilar twin sisters:
So in all likelihood your children with this pale Irish man would also be quite pale… but if your dad’s genes are passed on (remember, one X comes from him, one X from your mom, and 23/46 somatic chromosomes from him) then they could have a “blended” skin tone in between your dad’s and your partner’s.
That was what I got from it as well. Let’s not jump to conclusions, people!
[name]Leona[/name], my family is about 90% blonde, blue eyed, fair skinned people. I have dark brown hair, green eyes and light olive-ish skin. My boyfriend is also blonde with blue eyes and fair skin (and everyone is his family too), our daughter has (this far) almost black hair, olive skin and brown eyes. Coulouring doesn’t matter, what will be will be! Babies are beautiful!
Wasn’t trying to chastise… That is why I said I hope it’s an innocent question… Bad choice of words, perhaps. I personally found it to be a strangely worded question… the way I read it, it seemed like you would be upset if your future children had olive skin like your father, especially with the “please help” attached to it.
Didn’t mean to ruffle any feathers. As I said, genetics are a funny thing. You just never know.
Or conversely one might think that i might want them to look like him? with a huge nose! lol
I have no clue what the motivation behind your question was. I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say you were just curious what babies will look like. Which is impossible to know really, everyone thinks its funny that I am pretty much exactly in between my mom and dad when it comes to looks. My dad has light hair and my mom has darker and mind is in-between. Its the same with my eye color, face shape, and hair texture, and yes skin tone. Although both my mom and dad tan, and I just burn.
It will be interesting to see!
On a side note, it seems some people have hit a nerve with their comments. I don’t think they were trying to “jump on you” as you said. Your question (and past questions) just has a bit of an odd vibe, but its probably completely innocent.
I think people are waaaaay too quick to infer racism nowadays. If she had said, “I’m olive skinned and my grandpa is pale and I hope there’s some of my olive skin in there,” nobody would have blinked.
[name]Leona[/name], in answer to your question it’s impossible to know in advance. My mom is a pale white lady. My dad is a dark white dude. (Each of his maternal grandparents were half American [name]Indian[/name].) I turned out… paler than my mom! 
So who knows? The mystery is part of the fun.
[name]Blade[/name] - those are some pretty awesome twins.