A British family has nicknamed their kids as the rainbow children because of their completely different skin colours.
Ms Carla Nurse, 27 and her black husband Cornel, 31, had their first child Jermaine with a mixed race complexion, and a daughter Tanisha arrived with an Afro-Caribbean appearance, their second son Jayden was born with white skin and blonde hair.
They said they were not surprised with Jermaine’s mixed race complexion, but were amazed by their other two kids with totally different-coloured skin, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Ms Nurse, a part-time model from Lowestoft, Suffolk, said she lives in a predominantly white town, and she finds it is pretty strange when she walks around with her brood of rainbow children.
Her major concern is that many people assume the children to have different fathers.
She told the Daily Telegraph when giving birth to each of them at the hospital, and all the doctors where looking at her doubting she had all these children to different men.
“When people thinking I’ve cheated, it makes me so angry, but I would never stray from Cornel.” Ms Nurse added.
Mr Nurse, who was born and breaded in Suffolk village of Halesworth, has a white mother coming from London and an Afro-Caribbean father from Barbados.
He said he definitely believes all these three children are his, “They all have our facial features, it’s just the colour of their skin which is different – it’s hard to believe.” He told the Daily Telegraph.
He went on saying Tanisha was dark from the beginning, but when the boys got older one has gone darker, the other has gone whiter, and the whole thing is just a freak of nature.
Mr Nurse also said in an interview with the Daily Mail, all the three kids were planned – Jermaine was conceived on holiday in Florida, Tanisha and Jayden were conceived at home.
The mixed race couple did not forgetting the joke sent by their friends, who nicknamed them – the couple and their children “the United Nations”, the Daily Telegraph said.
According to the Daily Mail, the British Society for Human Genetics (BSHG) said it was highly unusual for one family give birth to three totally different skin-coloured children.
Dr Jess Buxton, the BSHG spokesman said he has never heard of this before, but several different genes control skin colour in a similar way to eye and hair colour.
Children from the same parents only shares about 50 per cent of their parents’ genes.
If one parent has several “light skin” gene variants, the other has several “dark skin” variants, then their children can have a skin colour anywhere in between, but it depends on which the combination of variants they receive.
Because it is a random process, it is certainly possible for the same parents to have children with completely different-coloured skin.
Dr Jess Buxton went on saying they do not know all of the genes involved, and it is impossible to predict when this will happen, “there is still a lot we do not know about individual genes and how they govern characteristics.”
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