11 hours ago, Trixie Belden said:
I just caught this on TLC tonight and I'm going to devil's advocate the Josh/Aleks situation. My son is white, his father and I are both white and everyone on both sides of our families are white as far as we know. He has super fair, burn in 10 minutes skin with light brown hair and blue eyes. My daughter in law has black hair, blue eyes and tan skin. Her parents are both blonde and blue eyed and fair skinned. Until shortly before they got married, I had no idea that both her parents are biracial; her maternal grandparents are black and white while her paternal grandparents are white/black/American Indian. Her mother's sister (full sister, not half or step) is black. You wouldn't ever guess that these two women were even distantly related, much less had the same parents because they look absolutely and completely different, with different hair texture, facial features and skin color. My daughter in law got a crazy combination of genes from her parents so that she looks like a different race than both her parents. My grandson has the same exact hair, eye and skin colors as my son, but he tans immediately in the sun and rarely burns.
A close friend of mine is blonde, brown eyed and fair skinned and her husband was black with very dark skin. They have 3 children and every single one of those children look like a different race from each other. One looks black, one looks Hispanic and one looks white. All have the same parents.
3 hours ago, Pepper Mostly said:
Its no one else's business. I've mentioned this before, but my husband is black, our son is biracial, and he "looks white" (whatever that means). Brown hair, blue green eyes, light skin, takes after my side of the family. More than once friends have asked him "is that your real dad or your stepdad?" He doesn't find it hurtful, just funny. If people are really curious or really good friends, they can ask. And Aleks and Josh can just say "yes, she's our child". Period.
I posted something similar somewhere. With DNA tests so readily available and used now, it shouldn't come as a surprise that you cannot tell parentage by the skin tone or eye color of a child. My immediate and extended family have a wide range of skin tones and no one questions when a kid of lighter or darker tone than the parent is born. It's really absurd to me. Decades ago we would learn in school that there were dominant genes and if one parent had brown eyes and one had blue, the baby's eyes would be brown because it is the dominant color. That has been thoroughly disproven by DNA but still taught.
Aleks could have a dark father and white mother and show up without dark skin only to later have a child that showed more pigment. There are some famous cases of it happening, like the twins where one child showed was obviously much darker than the other, and paternity test revealed the same father of both. It made all the rounds on network television, and is probably why they thought that would believed. We also have decades of Maury showing us that comparing photos is useless much of the time. My nephew looks exactly like his stepdad did in his baby photos. If you put them up next together, you would think they were the same baby. Now that he is grown, he looks even more like him.
That said, she seems to be lying about going into labor two months early, which would put conception before she arrived in the U.S. It's too hard to believe that their daughter was born two months early and didn't have to spend time in NICU. So if she is going to lie about that, why should I believe that her father is a black man?
My guess is that Josh knows and accepted it, and apparently is treating the little girl as his own and not holding it against her or Aleks. They probably did this update with the agreement their daughter's face not be shown because they needed the money. When Jason of Jason/Cassia went on one of his "Sharp Entertainment is the Devil" rants, he said that the update they filmed paid $5000. He wanted them to show some gift business they were involved in and it didn't make it to air, so he blasted them for lying to him again.
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