text: Of the 3 natural redheads I know, not one of them had a parent with red hair.  I believe it is a recessive gene.\n\nHeres what I found\n\n"One genetics textbook explained it this way: a person with red hair has genes for light colored hair (blond), and also possesses separate genes specifying red hair. This combination makes red hair -- redheads are blonds in disguise!Someone with dark hair might also have the red hair genes, but their dark hair genes overrule the red genes and so they don't have red hair. This would also explain why dark-haired parents can sometimes have redhead children."\n\nI also don't know many true redheads that have redheaded children.  Just an FYI\n\nLet it go...love your wife and your child!