While looking up some of the statistics for a previous blog post, I stumbled along a little article. Before you click on it, I would suggest reading the rest of my article. You can find it here. However, I should first tell you what it is about. The world's largest sperm bank, Cryos International, have began turning away donors with red hair. They state it is simply because they have such a high number of donors, but there is not a high enough demand for redhead babies (with the exception of Ireland). Perhaps it's because the soon-to-be surrogate mothers know they don't have the genes to produce a redhead child, so they don't bother requesting it. Maybe, they just don't want a redheaded child. That is pretty hard for me to believe, because throughout my whole life people who I'm just meeting, or maybe people just walking by me in a public place that I've never met before, will come and tell me that they love the color of my hair, and how someone they know had the EXACT same color hair as me. What are the odds? Back to the topic, it is shocking to me how low the demand is for ginger babies. Maybe it's because I'm a redhead myself, but I've always pictured that my kids could have the same color hair as I do. Apparently to others, that doesn't seem like the reality.
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