This trope has been known to overlap with Red-Headed Stepchild in some examples that involve hair colour instead of skin colour. In exceptionally rare circumstances, it is possible for non-identical twins to be born where both happen to be polar opposites of each other in terms of skin tone. However, the old wives' tale of a white parent and a light-skinned black parent (possibly passing as white) producing a dark-skinned baby is quite literally one in a million. In one instance in the Netherlands, a white couple who underwent IVF found themselves the parents of a black infant because the lab hadn't sanitized its equipment adequately after performing an IVF procedure for a black couple. Sometimes the infant's parents are of different races, while sometimes both parents are themselves mixed race. In Real Life, thanks to the many ways the effects of heredity can manifest, this can also happen if both parents are of mixed race, then their genes can combine in such way that they have a child that appears to be fully of one race. While black infants may appear slightly darker, all newborns generally don't have their true skin tone begin developing until around a few months after they're born. Then you have cases where the father has no idea the kid isn't his when it's clear to everyone else.Īs these are sure to be Three Month Old Newborns, expect the race to be completely obvious from birth, even though all babies tend to be considerably more pink for the first few days of their life - the Apgar score specifically measures this as one of the ways to evaluate a newborn's health. The title comes from a scene in the movie Life where the (white) warden of an all-black prison sees his illegitimate grandson for the first time and is revolted to see that the kid is racially mixed.

The most well-known subtype of this is a white couple that gives birth to a half-black child. In very old stories, the theory of ' maternal impression' may be used to explain it - either seriously, or as a way of bamboozling the putative father. If the mother is the main character, expect her to either have been raped or not know why she had a child that doesn't look like its father. In other words, Mommy had an affair and was knocked up with the cad's baby.Įven before DNA testing, this can resolve the question of whether or not the baby is the father's. Except when the child is born, it is either racially mixed or has some other trait(s) it couldn't have possibly received from its parents.

Two parents, who are the same race (or, in science fiction or fantasy, species), are having a child.

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