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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What would cause a kid to not grow as tall as their parents? Obviously other relatives’ genetics come into play. My daughter was 5’.75” at her 14th birthday (so I suspect she’s done growing as she got her period when she was 12.5). Her birth mom is 5’3” and her birth dad is 5’5”. Is it the dad’s height, which is short for a man but not overly short for their race and age. [/quote]
genetics and diet

I'm Korean American.  50 years ago, most Koreans were pretty short. Today, Korean young adults are relatively tall (compared to older Koreans).  It's the diet. They have more abundant food, especially meat, today than years past. But, along with that, come obesity. There's more obesity in Korea than before.    There's a height difference between North Koreans and South Koreans. Same ethnicity, similar gene pool, but a measurable height difference. It's the diet.[/quote]

PP here. We are actually Korean too! So my question is…my daughter has been raised here since she was an infant, on a completely American diet (for better or worse). Shouldn’t that have given her a better chance of being taller than her birth parents? As it stands, she’ll be lucky to eke out that extra quarter inch to make it to 5’1”. She is shorter than both her birth parents and seems to have stopped growing. [/quote]

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