15. Another Ginger ruins the moment

My own birth was a little suspect – I had bright red hair and super pale features, and both my parents have black hair and they tan well, so when they said “she’s crowning, I can see her red hair” it freaked my mom out and she stopped pushing and started asking questions about how that was possible.

16. Awkward silence

I’m Korean and my wife is Irish/Welsh. When my first daughter was born, she looked so completely Asian that one slightly dingy nurse wondered out loud if my wife was sure the baby was hers.

17. An upstanding man

This is probably way too late to be seen, but I’ll share anyway.

My (white) mother was married to my (white) father when she got pregnant with my younger brother. She was working at a Chinese restaurant at the time.

My little brother is half-chinese. I assume my mother knew the chances of that happening were pretty good, because she took off across the country to give birth.

Eventually, she moved us back to our home state, and my father wasn’t at all surprised by my brothers ethnicity, given my mother’s well-known proclivity towards sleeping around.

Because they were married at the time of my brother’s birth, my father is legally his father. He was forced to pay child support by the state, even though my mother never went back to him, and you can pretty clearly tell they are not blood related.

My father always loved my brother, though. He never said he wasn’t his son, never complained about paying the support. Even years later after they hadn’t spoken in ages, dad had no problem signing paperwork so my brother could marry his immigrant wife.

I think the saddest part of this story is the fact that my brother will never know who his real father is, and I doubt his biological father even knows of his existence. Although this doesn’t seem to bother him in the least.