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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Novels abounded with the grim story of a baby "as black as pitch" born to an ostensibly white couple. Doesn't happen.[/quote]

It does. Check the name Sandra Laing in WIkipedia if you doubt this.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Laing During apartheid in South Africa an Afrikaner (Dutch ancestry) white couple had 3 children--2 sons and a daughter. When the daughter started school, other parents complained because she looked "colored"--mixed race. She was expelled from school because under the law she wasn't white.

DNA tests weren't available at the time, but her father did a blood test which just proved he could be her father.  Given her parents' political and religious beliefs, it is highly unlikely her mother had an affair. Family heritage was known for 3 generations and it was all white.

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I looked up Sandra Laing. Going on features alone, it’s obvious her mom was getting a little side action. There is no way that her legal father was her biological one. They didn’t do a DNA test (those weren’t around). All they did to confirm paternity was a blood test. It’s pretty easy to match on a blood test. Close to 40% of the population regardless of race is O+. I’d hardly call matching blood types as definitive proof of parentage. Dad’s views were obvious, but mom was probably playing along. It’s far more likely that a woman cheated than it is that people with three generations of Dutch ancestry produced a Black child.

If I adopted a child, I would love her, not worry about classifying her. When she’s old enough, she can take a DNA test if she chooses. I’d leave it up to her.[/quote]

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