When a black man and a white woman have a child, does the child become white? If a white man and a black woman have a child, does the child become black?
Last Updated: 24.06.2025 09:56
Regardless, just love the kids.
No! Genetics are a roll of the dice.
These kids are neither White/Black, they’re them, mixed/biracial/whatever you’d like to label it. They are uniquely them.
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Other examples.
Seal is a Black man and had children with his ex. Heidi Klum, a White woman.
Their kids look like this:
It’s stupid AF. lol.
On the flip side, Serena Williams and her husband, Alexis Kerry Ohanian, their children (she had another baby) are lighter in skin tone:
(All pics are available publicly, submitted to various media outlets anyone can access.)
Clearly, this is a mixed bag. You never know what you will get.
Plus, less progressive societies usually, incorrectly, believe the man has the stronger genes. So this isn’t even a widely held belief. A common belief is that the father decides the race, which is stupid.
Why would that make sense to you?