Topic Suggestion/Request:
Mixed Race Health Complications
Reasoning:
Hello Corey,
I listened to the Stone Choir episodes on race a while back and remember you mentioning that being in a mixed-race marriage can cause problems for the child because it can be hard to find donors for medical needs with the child. I was curious if the negative medical effects extended further. Within my friend group, two of the couples are in mixed marriages where the male is white, and the female is 50% non white. These two couples have had birth complications, including miscarriage. Between their two children who were successfully born, the children had to have surgeries on the children within months or less of giving birth.
All the couples in my friend group who are not mixed-race have had their pregnancies go smoothly with practically no complications.
A simple Google search on the subject says that mixed-race couples decrease the chances for health complications because it decreases the chance for stuff like Sickle Cell Disease. In other words, Google says it’s good because it helps non-white people. I figured if there was a truth on this subject, it would be buried under years of fake or biased research to promote the mixing of races.
Question: Does mixing races increase the chances of health complications in the child?