[Pharmboy]

Skin color should also count for fidelity checks, right?

[Pharmboy]

Interesting, eh?

[LIConFem]

Fidelity obviates the need for paternity tests.

Or am I just being old-fashioned?

[Bosco]

Me: blue-eyed
Wife: blue-eyed
3 kids: all blue-eyed
Works for me.

[Paloma_55]

I have blue, my wife has hazel and our son has dark brown eyes.

That doesn't bother me so much.

Its the red hair and freckles that I don't understand. Neither of us has red hair or freckles.

I was talking to my neighbor the other day about it. He has red hair and freckles, so I thought that perhaps he might have some insight into the genetic transfer characteristics of those traits, but he had no idea at all.

[utahagen]

What this article doesn't mention is that sometimes mutations occur. A blue-eyed person may -- rare, but it does happen -- carry a gene for brown eyes that was supposed to be dominant but, because of a mutation, flipped and was trumped by the blue-eyed gene. In this case, a blue-eyed person would carry a gene for brown eyes that may show up when he has a child. Thus, a brown-eyed person may have blue-eyed parents if one (or both, theoretically) of the parents were supposed to have brown eyes.

[Screamname]

What if you are black and your wife gives birth to a white blonde haired boy?

[RightWhale]

There are more eye colors than blue and brown.

[pissant]

I prefer classy green eyed blondes

[stayathomemom]

A classmate of my older sister discovered she was adopted when they were studying genetics in 10th grade biology. I think it was the eye color issue that tipped her off. What a shock that would have been. However, I have also heard that it isn't a simple one gene trait.

[hsmomx3]

When we were much younger, we used to ask our mom why two of our cousins were so dark and she said they were just born that way.

Much later on, I found out my aunt was having an affair. My poor uncle, he treated those girls as if they were his very own up until the time of his death.

[Screamname]

Or what if both you and your wife are white yet your wife gives birth to a kid who looks very asian and wears a wig?

[HungarianGypsy]

Me: hazel (brownish green with gold flecks)
husband: blue gray
child #1: green
child #2: hazel (like me)
child #3: blue gray
child #4: brown
child #5: blue gray

The real fun is how often people ask if my child have different fathers even though three look just like their dad and two look like me. People can be so goofy.

[Revolting cat!]

Ain't I cute?

[Halls]

Actually my OBGYN told me that two blue eyed parents have about 75% chance of having a child with blue eyes, it is not certain and science is not certain sometimes and that she has seen a child come out with different eye color than mom and dad's blue eyes and the child WAS the father's.

I have blue/gray eyes and my DH has blue eyes and we did in fact have a son with blue eyes just like his dads, but we both knew it was possible for our son to come out with different colored eyes. But our son looks just like his dad from eyes, nose, mouth, ears, body shape, it is almost like I gave birth to my DH, lol!

[Revolting cat!]

[Styria]

Eye color is more complex than that. Blue-eyed parents occasionally do have brown-eyed children. Also, there's a separate gene for central brown color, and eye color can change as you age too.

[Obadiah]

In college I used to have really red eyes many Saturday mornings. Funny thing is that they'd turn back to brown sometime about mid day.

[Unmarked Package]

Speaking as a blue-eyed man, I can definitely say I prefer women with blue eyes, but it has nothing to do with an ability to identify kin. Your honor, may I present Exhibit A:

I rest my case.

[arizonarachel]

I have blue eyes and my husband has beautiful green eyes. I can't wait to see what our future children have!

[Trueblackman]

Someone better grt Jesse and his rent-a-mob on the horn!