Why do many kids not have freckles these days?

youtube! · 13-03-2013 03:24PM #1

Here's another one for ya, kids these days just don't have big freckle faces like they did when I were a kid.
Now I my self was cursed with a face full and I would say about 73% of kids had them too,thankfully they are all but gone by the time you are grown but still.

Now here's the thing, I had them my wife not so much but my kids NONE. My siblings are even weirder, my brother was plastered in them his missus was even worse but both their kids are totally free of them. And then I decided to look around and what I found was there are very few kids these days with the affliction of freckles, anyone else notice this? Why is it happening? I am intrigued!

Melion · 13-03-2013 03:25PM

Because kids dont go out and play in the sun anymore, they are all stuck indoors on their DS' etc.

anncoates · 13-03-2013 03:26PM

youtube! wrote: »

And then I decided to look around and what I found was there are very few kids these days with the affliction of freckles, !

So you spend your day hanging around schools checking kids "for freckles".

Love2love · 13-03-2013 03:26PM

Eh.....Suncream?

Digs · 13-03-2013 03:26PM

Kids aren't out running about the fields playing kiss chasing until all hours anymore and getting the sun on their faces. The playstation won't give you freckles!

That and the sun seems to have given up on Ireland altogether in the last few years.

antodeco · 13-03-2013 03:26PM

My daughter has them! I think its down to more use of sun tan lotion!

krudler · 13-03-2013 03:27PM

bloody modern kids and their lack of skin damage

meoklmrk91 · 13-03-2013 03:29PM

My guess is kids don't spend as much time outside and most people put sunscreen on their kids now where as years ago they didn't.

youtube! · 13-03-2013 03:30PM

Melion wrote: »

Because kids dont go out and play in the sun anymore, they are all stuck indoors on their DS' etc.

do you know i never considered that angle! that probably has a lot to do with it in which case it's a very sad state of affairs.

Micky Dolenz · 13-03-2013 03:30PM

Back in my day we had proper summers.

krudler · 13-03-2013 03:31PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Back in my day we had proper summers.

1995, last great summer in this country.

Pushtrak · 13-03-2013 03:32PM

youtube! wrote: »

do you know i never considered that angle! that probably has a lot to do with it in which case it's a very sad state of affairs.

Screen name: youtube!

Looks legit.

Sofiztikated · 13-03-2013 03:34PM

They're not your kids?

Is the milkman free of freckles?

Terry1985 · 13-03-2013 03:45PM

could be that freckle faces find it harder to reproduce, just like gingers. So there's less of their kids around.

Gambas · 13-03-2013 03:48PM

krudler wrote: »

1995, last great summer in this country.

The only great summer. It was awesome.

I think the 'playstation' theory is weak, and more a case of an answer looking for a question. Not sure about the sun lotion theory either but has more merit IMO. I suspect that genetics has more than a bit of a part to play, with freckles being part of a suite of features like red hair and pale skin that are less common as local populations mix more.

Ush1 · 13-03-2013 03:49PM

krudler wrote: »

1995, last great summer in this country.

2006 man, World cup in Germany. Was hotter in Dublin than Greece.

donvito99 · 13-03-2013 03:49PM

Because of the feckin' Swan eating poles.

youtube! · 13-03-2013 03:49PM

Gambas wrote: »

The only great summer. It was awesome.

you must be very young

TeddyTedson · 13-03-2013 03:51PM

Well when I was in school in the 90s kids with them would have been the minority.

youtube! · 13-03-2013 03:53PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Well when I was in school in the 90s kids with them would have been the minority.

ye see that's what I mean I was in primary in the 1970's and 3/4 of the kids had them, I think it's just over the years kids didn't go out and play outdoors like they used to. But maybe other factors too.

HondaSami · 13-03-2013 03:54PM

I love freckles, they are so cute on kids maybe not as cute on adults.

AnonoBoy · 13-03-2013 03:54PM

Photoshop.

Ush1 · 13-03-2013 03:56PM

HondaSami wrote: »

I love freckles, they are so cute on kids maybe not as cute on adults.

You produce more melanin as your get older anyway so often freckly kids will not be freckly adults.

deconduo · 13-03-2013 03:57PM

Melion wrote: »

Because kids dont go out and play in the sun anymore, they are all stuck indoors on their DS' etc.

Sun?

1ZRed · 13-03-2013 03:57PM

Handy if we could photoshop the lard off them as well and solve our obesity problem

starlings · 13-03-2013 03:59PM

it's only March, and still cold

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Mine don't come up till the first fine day of May/June. Sunscreen doesn't prevent them - it just stops the rest of the skin from burning.

jester77 · 13-03-2013 04:03PM

Blessed be the sun cream and endless wet summers!

I remember as a kid I would get the "irish tan" and be in agony and no one cared. I would be shedding lumps of skin everywhere and my arms would be blistered. There was no such thing as sun cream back then. I have 2 very freckled arms up to the t-shirt line as a result, from there up I have milk coloured, freckeless skin and it looks feckin weird!

krudler · 13-03-2013 04:04PM

deconduo wrote: »

Sun?

Mythological Irish element, said to appear briefly one day a year,hovers in the sky looking like a disc of pure white light, some say it even generates its own heat source although there aren't many eyewitness accounts of it so evidence is sketchy at best. Worshipped in the traditional manner by wearing wifebeater vests and drinking cider in the park.

smash · 13-03-2013 04:05PM

Evolution!

TeddyTedson · 13-03-2013 04:07PM

youtube! wrote: »

ye see that's what I mean I was in primary in the 1970's and 3/4 of the kids had them, I think it's just over the years kids didn't go out and play outdoors like they used to. But maybe other factors too.

They would have in the 90s still. I remember we weren't allowed back in the house until diner time.
Then we were back outside again during the Summer evenings.
When did kids stop playing outdoors? It is a bit sad really. We had so many adventures... Not super adventures now

AnonoBoy · 13-03-2013 04:08PM

krudler wrote: »

Mythological Irish element, said to appear briefly one day a year,hovers in the sky looking like a disc of pure white light, some say it even generates its own heat source although there aren't many eyewitness accounts of it so evidence is sketchy at best. Worshipped in the traditional manner by wearing wifebeater vests and drinking cider in the park.

Shrine was set up to supposed appearance of it in Knock.

Thousands of people gather there every year to stare into the sky and swear that they saw it.

Why do many kids not have freckles these days?

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