A friend has given birth to a beautiful little girl.
So we chatted and cooed over her lovely little one during a visit – though the experience made me secretly very glad to have passed those frazzled milk-sodden days…
Apparently, the woman in the next bed had just been told that the father of her child must be Asian or mixed race, unlike her white partner…
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at the precise moment when the midwife gently broke the news…
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Liverpool Women’s Hospital: better than Shameless any day.
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Oh dear, yes, well.. not easy to explain really!
Nope; no getting round that one, really! But I suppose she was keeping the human race going, as Janus would say…
Fortunately for ms scouse,
The colour of the child will have no bearing on the benefit claim.
In Liverpool? It’s quite possible that the child is a genetic ‘throwback’…
🙂 oops. I’ve heard it explained as “a touch of jaundice” which buys time for a couple of weeks while a better explanation is sought.
It is always possible that there was some genetic history to explain this. A friend of mine has a very lovely English rose type wife, who has an equally lovely sister. Her sister gave birth to a child who looked very “mixed race”. Knowing she had not been naughty, she did some research into the family history and it turns out that one of their great grandfathers was an African American, as they say now, although this had never shown in any of his successors.
On the other hand, the scandal story is more fun!
FEEG,
And your ‘friend’ believed that codswallop?
If I were you I would sell him London Bridge or some real estate on Mars.
Whats next, STDs from toilet seats?
I had an uncle who was the only dark-skinned, dark-eyed member of a family of five blond(e)s. There was much speculation as to my grandmother’s activities while her man was down the pit.
When a Chinese lady gave birth to a baby that quite obviously contained European parentage, her husband said, ” Now look here, two Wongs don’t make a white.”
Ha ha, Sipu! But do you know, the misplaced genetic heritage argument may be right, what with Liverpool’s history of slavery. Then again,I reckon jaundice could sound a bit more, erm plausible. But the scandal is the most likely explanation..
Claire is this your first post here? And not a whine in sight! Congrats girl.
Open the bubbly!
Hey Isobel! I know! Apart from creative wrting, I gave up putting serious posts on MyT because I’d get head ripped off by the Kowledgeable Elders. THe irony is that I had no qualms about pouring heart and soul out in poems/short stories, but was bloody terrified of doing anything else on MyT. Having said that, just posted something there, so I think I will just run and hide in the park like the wimp I am! 😉
Ah well. It’s only virtual. I had a look this morning and there didn’t seem to be much going on. I get quite intimidated by those who claim ownership of the site and depressed by the mob mentality there that so often prevails. But I must get on. Will take a look at your blog later. Enjoy the park.
I’ll go with BO in Liverpool, quite a possibility of genetic throwback.
DNA tests will prove or disprove whether the white is the father.
This has happened in the Deep South so many times, two white people throw a completely black baby, evidently, on research it takes 10 generation for a recessive gene to be able to emerge like that.
Such ‘killing issues’ have been defused since DNA testing that can and does prove that 2 whites can equal 1 black.
Here lieth the problems of the Mississippian with so called ‘Lebanese’ ancestry!
Not on your life, something to be thought of very carefully indeed south of the Mason Dixon line before matrimony is to be considered.
Not that I expect that to be a consideration of some low creature in Liverpool.