When I was about 7, I met a blonde woman who had a redheaded baby. After she left, I exclaimed to my mom that she must of stolen the baby. When my mom asked me why, I told her because the baby had red hair and the woman didn't. Therefore, in my mind there was no way that baby belonged to that woman. My mom tried to explain that children don't always have the same hair color as their parents. Which to an extent I believed because I was blonde and my mom a brunette but because redheads were so rare to me, I just "knew" that only two redheads could make a baby with red hair. I refused to believe otherwise.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- i thought - when i was pregnant - i could dye my hair blond, and my baby wouldn´t be brunette as i am.— judi (peru)
- I used to think that if a black woman or man and a white woman or man had a baby, it would be Asian.Anon
- That to make a baby a man (over 21 & under 25) had to kiss a woman (over 19 & under 21).— Johny
- I used to believe that a baby's sex was determined by whether the sperm had a picture of a man or woman on it.— David E.
- I used to think that to give birth, a woman had a slit cut into her inner thigh, and the baby would come out.Anon
- I thought that if a black man and a white woman (or reverse) had a baby it would be stripped!— Bec