Plexico knocks another one out of the park FTW Just forgot to tell mom to save at least SOME of the child support for bail and lawyers.

My daughter was also born with black hair, but now it's faded to a light reddish brown color.

Most babies' hair changes dramatically. I was born with red hair, and although I still have red in my hair (as well as brown) I'm predominantly blonde. Not even strawberry blonde because the red is too hidden to come through enough.

Whoo! I'm rainbow haired too (when I'm not dying it). It's light brown with a definite red tone and some blonde highlights. My eyes were originally really blue, now they're more of a denim blue-gray.

Ha, I was born with dark brown hair and now I'm blonde and both my parents are redheads. Everyone can change their hair/eye color though. The boyfriend is almost as stupid as the person who wrote this FML: http://www.fmylife.com/kids/767

Woot for us! =) I was born with grey-blue eyes, but now they change colours depending on the colours I'm wearing...though usually their some shade of green. =)

Exactly. Both of my parents have dark brown hair. They have four children. Two of my siblings and I have brown hair. My other sister, has blond hair. Obviously my parents were both heterozygous, Bb x Bb. Also, babies usually have fair hair and light eyes because it takes a little while for them to produce melanin. Melanin is the pigment that determines your skin, hair, and eye color.

I'm almost certain they came up with this new crazy idea of divorce recently, allowing a husband to walk away, just as a boyfriend could. Sure, there are those annoying road bumps like paperwork and attorneys, but hey! You're out! And that's all that matters, right champ? ;) /sarcasm Your view is ridiculous- Especially if your only motive for marrying someone is so they can't leave you, and would have to pay alimoney if they DID leave you, that's ****** up. Many, many, many people have children and NEVER marry and wind up happy as they could ever be. On the other side of the coin, many, many, many people DO marry and get divorced, and the child gets raised in an instable environment anyway. Your argument holds no water and it simply isn't your place to judge.

Wow, hey. From where I stand, it looks like you're judging me. I said at the beginning of my comment, I'm not judging anyone, I'm just stating my views. It is true that marriage is a bigger and more formal commitment than being boyfriend/girlfriend. It is true that you can get out of a marriage through divorce, but it is also true that it takes time and thought. It is simply much easier to break up with your girlfriend than it is to divorce your wife. You are being mean, and that is a lot different that stating your views in a reasonable way.

what they're saying is that a child born out of wedlock (which btw in mho is a boring painful expensive liefilled waste of a ceremony) and a child of a divorced couple is the same. wait, I lied they're not, there's less fighting, pain, suffering, and damage done to the child if there's no divorce and the parents can just agree to go their seperate ways without having to get the lawyers involved over every little detail. So it looks like getting married to have a child is the wrong choice for everyone involved. Interesting. score one against the good book of LIES

You know, I really believe this is a cultural/familial values issues. Some families value marriage very highly and others don't. I'm in my twenties, and my parents are divorcing. Is it necessary? Yes. Do I wish they had never gotten married, and then "just agree to go their separate ways without having to get lawyers involved over every little detail"? Absolutely not. For one thing, as a young child having parents that were married was important to me. For another, if my mom hadn't gotten lawyers involved, my dad would be living alone in our family home, letting it all go to waste, and my mother and under-18 brother would be working their asses off to live in a tiny apartment somewhere. My mom had to fight to stay in the family home with her children, as well as to get her share of the retirement and other things. If my parents had never married, she would have no claim on these things, and therefore be much worse off. Something else, I believe that a married couple is more likely to plan their children than an unmarried child. I'm not saying unplanned children are any less loved or valued, but they are more prepared for, financially and otherwise, and I believe that gives them a better chance at a life of higher quality. I'm not saying that unmairried couples can't plan and prepare to have a child, or that married couples never have children before they are really ready, but on the average I believe what i have said to be true. I find it interesting that I'm just trying to state my views in a reasonable and logical way and keep getting attacked...

#212: My parents were married (they are recently divorced) and they had four children. Only one of us was planned. Not attacking you, just showing you that married couples with unplanned children do occur. I'm the result of it haha.

It's not safe to say kids from divorced parents are never happy. My parents got divorced and it was the best thing for us. Their relationship improved after divorce, friend-wise, and it made us all much happier. Marriage is, quite honestly, a bunch of legal shit. The OP should get child support, though. That would be granted.

I'm far happier my parents' decided to divorce. I had a GREAT childhood, filled with love. I had two people who cared for me very much. If they had stayed together, it would have destroyed my childhood. They simply weren't happy together, and they fought constantly. You really think it's better to put a child in the middle of two wildly unhappy parents and force them to stay together for the sake of the kid, rather than to part ways maturely and bring the child up as best as possible independently?

I suppose my "bastard" child who was born out of wedlock will grow up horribly and unhappily, and my child born in wedlock to the same man will be well adjusted and well behaved. Our material status at time of conception makes all the difference in how we choose to rear our children, right?

#47, The point is that your mother took the time to find a guy that was likely to be committed to their kids, and demonstrated that willingness to sign a legal contract to that effect. Naturally, there are cases when a divorce will make people happier. But the OP obviously hung out with a guy that ran for the first exit. If the OP had popped the question first, she would not be in the circumstance she is in, or the rest of us as taxpayers are in now that statistically she is headed to poverty and the kid to a much greater than average likelihood for needing expensive social support.

So you're saying that if they'd been married then the OP's husband would not have reacted the same way when the child grew blonde hair, simply because they were married. I know what come's next - "he was looking for a way out blah blah blah" but 5 years down the line and happy to have a baby with her it was only when it grew blonde hair that he left. Honestly, if he simply didn't want the kid he'd have left as soon as she was pregnant.

#60- My parents' married AFTER I, and my three brothers, were born. My Mom didn't "take the time to find a guy that was likely to be committed to their kids". She had several children, was happy, and then and ONLY then did she decide to marry him. She married because she loved him, NOT because he was committed to the kids. And they also split, thinking of what's better for themselves AND the children. They didn't marry nor split due to their children. I think that's how it should be.

#35 is a complete moron. Divorce is generally best for the kids if the parents don't get along. You say only people who have never been through their parents divorcing say that, but then you say you didn't go through it. So what makes you think you can say that it's "never better for the kid when the parents aren't together"? I don't give a **** how many people you know who's parents divorced or what they say about it, my parents got divorced and it was one of the best things to happen to me.

And my apologies, you may not want to be rid of him. I didn't mean to make an assumption. So FYL and whatever happens I hope it turns out well.