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As these are sure to be [[Three-Month-Old Newborn]]s, expect the race to be completely obvious from birth, even though a black newborn's skin tone usually takes a while to darken.
In [[Real Life]] if the parents are purely white the children will be white, making it justified to doubt her faithfulness but if the parent are of mixed race, then their hidden recessive genes can come out to the point of having a fair child. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100505173922/http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/17/1205061.aspx Sometimes] the infant's parents are of different races, while sometimes both parents are themselves mixed race.<ref>In one instance in the Netherlands, a white couple who underwent IVF found themselves the parents of a black infant because the lab hadn't sanitized its equipment adequately after performing an IVF procedure for a black couple.</ref> However, the old wives' tale of a white parent and a light-skinned black parent (possibly passing as white) giving birth to a dark-skinned baby is extremely improbable in real life, due to the genetics involved.{{verify|reason=Is this entire paragraph up to date with regards to genetics as understood in 2020?}}
Compare [[Oblivious Adoption]], which tends to be more innocent. If it's not a plot point, it's likely [[Hollywood Genetics]] at work.
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