Have you heard of TWINS OF DIFFERENT RACES??!?

Question

I was in class today and a friend of mine was telling me see saw twins of different races on televison. She told me their parents were both white but one of the twins black and the other is white... How can this be??? each twin had a different father??

Answer 1

It could never be two different fathers!! It is very rare but I've also seen a programme about this, I think it's when the parents are of different races (one black, one white) and from two eggs, non identical  twins are produced, one recieves the mothers race genetics and the other get the daddys, very rare but possible.  If both parents are white then it's still possible, if there's colour in the family way back it can re-appear in kids much further down the line, but very very rare, a bit like ginger hair but much more rare.

Answer 2

Here is a case about them, boys

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9438648/

And a case with girls

http://www.parentdish.com/2006/03/03/one...

It doesn't mean the mother was a s**t, even though a woman that ovulates more then one egg can get pregnant from two different people, most are generally from the same parents just they inherited the genes differently.

Answer 3

Could be or simply the mother or father is of a mixed race family and each baby just takes after a particular side of one of their families.

Answer 4

I've seen a show with the opposite effect.  The mother and father were both mixed race black/white, and both looked like black folks ala Halle Berry.  One of their twin daughters had the same pigmentation as they did, but one daughter was as white as snow, including the blond hair and blue eyes.

It's a trip, but it can happen.

Answer 5

Yes, it's very rare, but twins can have different fathers.  If a woman ovulates more than once in her cycle (which is how any woman gets pregnant with fraternal twins) and has s*x with more than one man, it's possible for each egg to get fertilized with a different man's sperm.  Weird!

Answer 6

it means the mother was a $lut.

Answer 7

it is possible for twins to have two different fathers...

i have heard of twins of different races. one pair of twins had a black parent and a white parent. one twin was black and the other was white. it doesnt happen often, but it does happen...

Answer 8

This could happen with two fathers but the babies in the case that was on the news this week both had the same parents. The mother was black and the father was white... the babies just looked like opposite parents.

Answer 9

In the case of the girls:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/mixe...

They're parents are both mixed.

One of the mothers eggs that was white mixed with the fathers white sperm and vise-versa.

In the boys case:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15447465/wid...

They were conceived via in vitro and another mans sperm accidentally was mixed up and thats how the darker son was born.

Answer 10

It means the mom cheated on the dad. Either they both have the black daddy or it is just the black one that is half and half.

Answer 11

it is really rare but it is possible,it happens when one of the parents has a recessive gene of a different race.in other words is mixed somewhere in his DNA.it is really interesting.

Answer 12

Well, there are cases where both parents are biracial, and one egg got the "white" genes and the other got the "black" genes.

I doubt they had a different father. It is possible, though, if a woman ovulates twice.