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It entirely depends on which genes are selected randomly in the meiosis divisions which create the Sperm and Egg cells. Your child could in all possibility be as pale as their mother, or as dark as their father. However, it is more likely it will fall somewhere inbetween, but not necessarily bang on the middle. The skin will acquire features of both parents' skin. There is not one gene that codes for skin color... there are many. Therefore, the skin will be a mix of different features. It is also possible for it to be paler of darker than either parent, if there is a throwback to a grandparent or further back.
My father has olive skin and my mother has fair, Irish skin. My older brother got light tan color, not as dark as my father's olive, but darker than a medium skin tone. I got my father's dark olive skin. Though the process is random, it is likely that one of your children will have a somewhat darker skin tone.

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