Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agoWhat is something you believed was normal or true as a kid, but later found out it was not?message-squaremessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
arrow-up125arrow-down1message-squareWhat is something you believed was normal or true as a kid, but later found out it was not?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareandrewta@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 days agoThat if two people of different races had a kid together there was a higher chance of birth defects.
minus-squareGeodad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoNot really. Even first cousins can have children without much chance of problems. It’s when siblings or parents breed together that problems happen.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoThat’s a new one! What made you think that?
minus-squareandrewta@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-22 days agoHeard it from the adults in my small town (not in the south of the US)
That if two people of different races had a kid together there was a higher chance of birth defects.
Isn’t the opposite true
Not really. Even first cousins can have children without much chance of problems.
It’s when siblings or parents breed together that problems happen.
That’s a new one! What made you think that?
Heard it from the adults in my small town (not in the south of the US)