I don't think it's limited to mixed-race couples (though not in such a relationship myself I can tell you some shockers my friends have experienced) - I get all the time that DS is a mini-DH, a clone of DH, am I his mother because he doesn't look anything like me, you can't see any of me in DS... it's just rude!

I know one lad locally who's mixed-race and his white grandparents get the odd funny look when they're out with him, but as he's the ONLY mixed-race lad in the village most of the local parents know him. Other friends are told it's nice they're helping out those less fortunate than themselves (when out with their own children) - as if being a darker colour means you're less fortunate! Dear me, I think the person who said that was looking for her teeth for the rest of the day. What else have people passed on? Quite a lot of rude comments that I won't repeat. "Will they darken up like you later?" or "The baby is not allowed out of hospital because he is jaundiced." "No, he's mixed race: look, I'm his grandmother, I'm black, the mother is white; I am telling you that's the normal colour for my babies and obviously my children's babies."

BTW, I have friends with Indian/English decent babies and the colour as they grow older just becomes more and more beautiful - I'm quite jealous sometimes. Your lad looks gorgeous to begin with, he'll be breaking hearts when he's older (if he hasn't started already) no matter what people say to you now.

I think those girls deal with the questions and rude statements with "Yeah this is my mummy, she loves my daddy too. Why don't you look just like your mother?" (I heard the younger girl come out with this one a while ago and the old lady was floored, as if a 5-year-old can't hear her!