If children (generally) take after the darker parent, why are certain kids still white?

[Anonymous]

I've seen this happened a couple times. My brother's wife is African American. They only have a daughter and she still came out looking like a female version of my brother, like his twin sister. She's now 8 years old and remains white with wavy light brown hair. With the exception of the body frame and maybe smile, she looks nothing like the mother. She hardly looks mixed, as if the mother had no influence on the genes at all.

Supposedly she would've come out tanned and taking after the mother. Why are certain kids still white even when the other parent had darker complexions?

Updates

7 mo

The girl literally came out of her belly and from what I was told it was a natural birth without epidural. And looks nothing like mom.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

So, genes aren’t a catch all thing. Remember that chart they shower you in high school, AA, BB, AB, BA, all that? Yeah, sometimes genes decide to do stuff it doesn’t normally do. No biggie.

[Asker]

True. In that case, then it would make the mother also mixed even though she's African American. I guess it's likely she has white ancestry.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Or just albinism

[beenherebefore]

Well, that's genetics. I have fair skin while my brother has dark skin, we both have the same parents. That's genetics.

[Asker]

yeah that's interesting. Genes are indeed unpredictable. I'm going to assumer my sister-in-law likely has white ancestry from far back.

[jahaims]

Read about genetics

[MasterKS]

error sperm!

[Asker]

but the girl looks nothing like the mother while she's a carbon copy, female version of my brother.

[MasterKS]

mostly that happens, daughter like father and son like mother.