Genetics - ½ Black ½ White kids - blonde hair blue eyes?

Question

I am super white with blonde hair and blue eyes. My kids' dad is black, not really dark but he has two black parents. I have two kids, both with blonde hair and blue eyes. One has very blonde hair, what would be called towheaded. They are both really light. The other has sandy blonde hair with highlights of light blonde but it is very very curly and hard to manage. Both have the exact same color blue eyes as me, my mom, and my brother. I am having baby number 3 in a week or two. What are the chances that my baby is going to be blonde/blue again? Do you think my kids are so light and blonde and take after me because I have better genes or do you think it was a fluke or two and this one will be brown skinned, haired, or eyed?

By the way, I am not trying to sound mean but I am smarter than him and I do believe I have better genes than he does, he is a little slow and he is a smoker/drinker and I am not. Could that be an explanation? Do the better genes really dominate because I always thought dark eyes/hair/skin dominated lighter, and I know it can skip, but I thought that after the first blondie that would be it, then my second one was lighter than the first!

Thanks for any input or info!

Answer 1

LOL "better" genes don't have anything to do with it. Genes are purely science and mathematical equations/order. You can smoke and drink all you want but still produce a kid that is a spitting image. Or you could be the smartest person in the world with un-human strength etc and produce a kid that doesn't look a thing like you. If you read up on it you'll find that recessive genes have something to do with it. There have been parents that have dark skin and dark hair that have a light skinned baby or a baby that has green eyes and parents who are both blond with fair skin who produce a dark haired baby. It means that somewhere down the line before you were born someone had these traits and these are in your genes and buried in your genetic code. They'll pop up sometime in the future. You can have 2 "black" parents who also each have 2 "black" parents and their parents are also "black" but say great, great, great grandma married a "white" man with blue eyes they could pop up in their great, great, great grandbaby years later despite the last 2 or 3 generations having brown eyes.  

Answer 2

If you were the father, rather than the mother, i might say this:

If your kids look like you, it's genetics.  If your kids look like the milkman, it's environment.

There isn't any way to tell which genes are going to go where.

That said, on my Dad's side of the family, the firstborns have only sons.  It could be chance.  But you'd expect half girls and boys. Statistically, if you look for enough patterns, you'll find some.

Answer 3

Um mm....if you really were smarter....A. you wouldn't broadcast it to the world because he is your kids father B. you would be SMART ENOUGH to finish middle school where you learn all about genetics C. the term is dominant genes, not stronger, and blonde is recessive....wow

Answer 4

Better genes don't dominate...but homozygous ones do. Hybrid do too. There's no way to tell what people get what genes without setting up the table!!! Btw I'm 13 so you should maybe know this lol.  

Answer 5

Your husbands physical qualities are stronger than yours so they are more likely to appear.

You never know though. Statistically speaking they will look like him with some of your parents features possibly.

Answer 6

hes black genius; the kids wont have blue eyes or blonde hair. basic gentics.