| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["Babies"],"appCategory":"Babies","appTitle":"What factors determine the skin colour of a baby?","appBody":"<p>Well the truth is that the skin colour of a child is completely dependent on the genes that the child inherits from his or her parents, but there's actually a little more to it than that.</p><p>We all know that skin colour is a function of just how much melanin you have in your skin, the more you have, the darker you are, the less you have, the lighter you are.</p><p>There's no evidence whatsoever that eating a certain type of food or drinking a certain type of drink will result in a light skin or dark skinned baby. It'll probably be a combination of you and your spouse's complexions and this means that if both of you are light skinned, then unless one of you has a recessive gene for high melanin content then all your kids will also be light skinned.</p><p>It's also quite for a child to inherit the exact same skin colour of one of the parents, there's surely be a slight difference between them. I have a friend who's mom is really dark skinned, like very dark, but her husband is so light skinned that he almost appears white. All their kids are light skinned and none of them are dark.</p><p>The thing is although they're light skinned, they're not as light as their father, their skin colour is as a result of their fathers strong light skinned gene being more dominant in the formation of their skin colour when they were developing in the womb.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"f3ag97z95","appParentAuthor":"palongo","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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