Hereditary body hair: Increased body hair is common in people with some ethnic backgrounds. If you wife and her family parents are hairy, your kids have a higher chance of having increased body hair too. There is no way to predict the chances that each child will have this.
Answered 4/20/2015
3.7k views
Very small.: Your father-in-law's lush body hair is a combination of heredity, puberty and testosterone. Male children who have inherited this tendency don't express this trait until well into puberty. Female children will develop pubic hair during adolescence but they won't be hairy like their grandfather. Your chance of having "hairy kids," a condition called hypertrichosis, is very small.
Answered 9/11/2014
3.7k views
No telling: not sure you can predict based on this information but would not blame your wife if your kids are hairy. It may have played no role. Male pattern baldness appears to run along the maternal line. I would prefer hairy over baldness myself!!!
Answered 9/11/2014
3.7k views
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A doctor has provided 1 answer
90,000 U.S. doctors in 147 specialties are here to answer your questions or offer you advice, prescriptions, and more.
Ask your question