How a white couple could have twins with different skin colors (6 photos)

The birth of such twins is quite rare, but it can happen not in interracial marriages.





There is one known case in the world when in a white family with no ancestors from other races, two boys were born - one black and the other white. And millions of families are not insured from this. It all started in Netherlands, in the city of Utrecht.

December 1, 1993 Wilma and Willem Stewart, hereditary whites the Dutch, without any admixture of foreign blood, were preparing for childbirth. The pregnancy was long-awaited - Wilma could not get pregnant for six years and She had to resort to IVF.



The birth went quickly: with a difference of three minutes, two boys were born. Light-skinned Taewoon and Cohen... dark-skinned and curly.

One can only imagine what my father felt when he saw newborn sons. Willem refused to recognize the children, blaming spouse in infidelity. The couple even turned to a family psychologist, and doctors began to understand the phenomenon.



It all started with a DNA test. Willem was the father of only one of twins - fair-skinned Teunu. But the DNA of black Cohen is maximally coincided with another client of the IVF clinic - a native of Aruba.

The ethnic composition of the island was formed several centuries ago. Almost all Arubans are a mixture of three races. Indian, Negro and a little European.

The inhabitants of Aruba are the Dutch territory and its black inhabitants often come to work in rich cities. Here is just one of them handed over biological material for IVF for his wife. By the way, they have one boy was born.



One of the nurses forgot to clean the pipette after she took the material from the Aruban and took Willem Stewart's material with it.

It is interesting that such a case, when, due to the carelessness of nurses, twins (twins) with IVF are different fathers. Five years before The situation in the Netherlands is similar to what happened in the USA. But both children were there. white and double paternity revealed when mom decided to donate DNA their children on a completely different matter.

Then the woman sued the clinic for $ 2 million in compensation.



In the Netherlands, parents had not only a moral question - to educate whether a black child, but also legal. In fact, its biological the father had the same rights to the boy as Wilma. And here is Willem was legally irrelevant. The case went to court and the Aruban refused parental rights, and Willem adopted a black baby.

The couple deliberately made the story public and it was not about money. They understood that all relatives, neighbors and friends would gossip about them and decided to stop all gossip at once.



Also, the Stuarts hide their exact place of residence. They lived in small village, but after giving birth they decided to move to Amsterdam, where no one is surprised by children of a different race, unlike well-wishers neighbors from of their native place of residence, which could tell grown children their vision of their appearance with their parents.

In 2005, the parents gave their last interview and said that Cohen is fine. The biological father wanted to communicate with his biological son and parents do not interfere with their meetings.