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Xipe Totec

(44,559 posts) Sat Oct 26, 2013, 02:22 PM Oct 2013

The Blond Roma - A tale of recessive genes [View all]

Recessive - Adj. Relating to or denoting heritable characteristics controlled by genes that are expressed in offspring only when inherited from both parents, i.e., when not masked by a dominant characteristic inherited from one parent.

As for example a blond or red-headed child born to dark-skinned parents.

Bulgarian Roma Sasha Ruseva (L), 35, holds her daughter next to her husband Atanas, 37, in front of their house in the town of Nikolaevo, some 280km (173miles) east of Sofia October 24, 2013. DNA tests showed that Ruseva and her husband are the biological parents of a 4-year-old blonde girl found in a Roma camp in Greece last week. Bulgarian prosecutors are investigating whether Ruseva agreed to sell her child in Greece. She denies this, saying she left a 7-month old baby in Greece - where she worked as an olive-picker - in 2009 because she could not look after the child and needed to return to Bulgaria

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/bulgarian-roma-ruseva-holds-daughter-next-husband-atanas-photo-164434725.html

Although one can reasonably doubt that a dark skinned child is the biological offspring of two light skinned parents, it does not work the other way around. Two dark skinned parents can both carry the recessive gene for light skin and can have light skinned offspring.

What happened to this family is atrocious.

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The Blond Roma - A tale of recessive genes [View all] Xipe Totec Oct 2013 OP

Albinism shanti Oct 2013 #1

You are absolutely correct. CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2013 #2

My parents were both brown haired, brown eyed Xipe Totec Oct 2013 #3

What is atrocious? Spell it out, please. LisaL Oct 2013 #5

You seem to be really confused. LisaL Oct 2013 #4

One of us is confused. I'll grant you that Xipe Totec Oct 2013 #6

The child was removed from a person who was not a biological mother. LisaL Oct 2013 #7

This is justification after the fact. Xipe Totec Oct 2013 #9

Really? How about having a proper documentation for the child? LisaL Oct 2013 #11

Why ask for the documentation to begin with? Xipe Totec Oct 2013 #12

Police went there to investigate suspected criminal activity. Then they noticed the child. LisaL Oct 2013 #14

Keep the girl where she is until there is cause for concern. Xipe Totec Oct 2013 #16

So having 14 children registered, most of whom appear to be non-existing, is not a cause for LisaL Oct 2013 #18

Your information is stale Xipe Totec Oct 2013 #22

First of all, police had no clue that biological mother gave up the child when they removed LisaL Oct 2013 #25

i dont think it matters what evidence comes out the goal posts keep getting moved loli phabay Oct 2013 #26

I noticed. I have been trying to be gentle with my rhetoric on this, but it's hard. moriah Oct 2013 #31

yup the broad brush thing gets me, though some of the comments have been shocking loli phabay Oct 2013 #32

Welfare fraud is no reason to bust into people's houses, and that's the only proven crime here. moriah Oct 2013 #13

So suspected welfare fraud should just be ignored? LisaL Oct 2013 #15

non-existing offspring? She's white, but she not a ghost. nt Xipe Totec Oct 2013 #17

Where are the other 10? LisaL Oct 2013 #19

You're desperately seeking cover by sliding into a different argument. Xipe Totec Oct 2013 #23

What different argument? LisaL Oct 2013 #28

It's quite likely that she registered her children multiple times each. moriah Oct 2013 #20

there is also the smart thing of registering kids across as many borders as you can loli phabay Oct 2013 #21

Yes, sure, makes it easier to hide. Whatever it is one wants to hide. LisaL Oct 2013 #27

question it if you like, but understand that there is the need to be able to disappear loli phabay Oct 2013 #30

You don't think that's a good reason to take a child into custody if there is suspicion of LisaL Oct 2013 #33

I'm sure it's not intentional, but that sounds an awful lot like victim blaming. moriah Oct 2013 #35

It's not "unequal protection" under the law. LisaL Oct 2013 #38

<bangs head thoroughly against wall> moriah Oct 2013 #39

Her bio parents took off and left some of the children behind. LisaL Oct 2013 #40

"Police said they were still in Bulgaria and not under arrest." moriah Oct 2013 #42

Per the article, they were "assigned" to the 18 year old sibling, because LisaL Oct 2013 #43

even in the us an eighteen year old sibling is old enough to watch their younger siblings loli phabay Oct 2013 #45

Even when parents were there, did you think the siblings looked well taken care of? LisaL Oct 2013 #46

I've known a few people who've given kids up for adoption. There were good reasons. moriah Oct 2013 #47

That's what audits and things like that are for, not random door-to-door searches. moriah Oct 2013 #24

In Greek law, an adoption occurring outside legal channels pnwmom Oct 2013 #29

I'll let her relative answer you on the child-selling accusation. moriah Oct 2013 #8

I fail to see what is good about this point. LisaL Oct 2013 #10

What happened to the little blonde child was atrocious Warpy Oct 2013 #36

payment can also be made in respect to lost dowries, people also dont get family is different loli phabay Oct 2013 #44

What an amazing hair color! pitbullgirl1965 Oct 2013 #34

It could very well be out of the box. LisaL Oct 2013 #37

probuably dyed, its a common enough practice to die young girls hair loli phabay Oct 2013 #41

It's dye. Her eldest daughter also had dyed hair TorchTheWitch Oct 2013 #48