How Many Kids Does Kehlani Have? Family in 2026

The Short Answer: One Daughter

Kehlani has one child: her daughter Adeya Nomi Parrish Young-White, born in March 2019 via an unmedicated home birth. She is 7 years old as of October 2026. Adeya’s father is Kehlani’s ex-boyfriend, guitarist Javaughn ‘Javie’ Young-White, with whom Kehlani split later in 2019.

The headline of the last two years is the custody fight. In August 2024, Young-White filed for custody and accused Kehlani of being influenced by a cult — claims Kehlani called “incredibly hurtful, inaccurate, inappropriate, and simply untrue,” and which he later backtracked on. In December 2025, Kehlani told The Breakfast Club: “I have full custody.” Asked if she had any contact with Young-White, she replied flatly: “No.”

Below is the full verified picture: Adeya’s birth and nickname, the dad, the 2024–2025 custody battle and its resolution, and where Kehlani stands in October 2026.

Adeya Nomi: Her 7-Year-Old Daughter

Kehlani announced Adeya’s arrival on Instagram in March 2019: “this weekend our angel arrived healthy & perfect in every way in our bathroom at home,” she wrote. “Unmedicated home birth was the absolute hardest yet most powerful thing I’ve ever done.” Young-White added his own account: “Kehlani birthed her, standing up, right into my arms.” Adeya turned 7 in March 2026 — Kehlani marked her third birthday with a March 23, 2022 post, which is how the birth date is verified.

Adeya — nicknamed “Bear” — has grown up in the public eye on her mother’s terms: onstage during tours, in music videos, and in Kehlani’s candid social media posts about parenthood. Kehlani, who uses she/they pronouns, has spoken about raising Adeya surrounded by “loudly queer” loved ones so she grows up knowing she will be embraced whoever she is. “I feel it should be normal,” Kehlani told The Advocate.

The singer has also been open about the harder parts. She has described single motherhood as the experience that “made me this insane sex symbol” of self-possession — and, during the custody fight, said the most painful moments were seeing her daughter’s name attached to false allegations. “That’s a bit of a heartbreaker,” she said.

Through the custody fight, Kehlani was careful to keep Adeya’s daily life as normal as possible. Friends describe a childhood full of music — Adeya on tour buses and backstage, in the studio, on the cover of her mother’s creative world — rather than courtrooms and filings. By 2026, with the ruling behind them, the 7-year-old is simply a second-grader with a mom who tours the world and a Grammy-nominated household full of instruments. The quiet after the noise is the point: the cult-claim saga ended not with vindication theater, but with a mother and daughter getting on with their lives.

The Dad: Javaughn Young-White

Javaughn ‘Javie’ Young-White, a Jamaican-American guitarist who played in Kehlani’s band, is Adeya’s father. The two started dating in 2018 around the time Kehlani announced the pregnancy that October, and they split later in 2019, months after Adeya’s birth. Kehlani has described him as a supportive partner at the time — “we’re really really close friends,” she said in 2021 — and the early co-parenting years were amicable.

That changed in 2024. In August of that year, Young-White filed for full custody of then-5-year-old Adeya, alleging in court documents that Kehlani was being controlled by a cult that was also caring for their daughter. Kehlani responded with a restraining order filing and a public statement calling the claims false. Young-White later said his filing was incomplete, blamed his former counsel, and accused outlets of sensationalizing his words — a backtrack Kehlani noted publicly: “Ultimately, the claims were false… he backtracked a lot.”

The Custody Battle: 2024–2025

The fight that began in August 2024 with the cult allegations played out across more than a year of headlines. Young-White’s filings claimed the alleged group “controls her actions and her behavior, including when it comes to the upbringing of our daughter”; Kehlani’s camp called the allegations “incredibly hurtful, inaccurate, inappropriate, and simply untrue.” Through it all, Kehlani said she leaned on her legal team and her faith.

It is worth recalling the stakes as the saga played out. Kehlani had built her brand on vulnerability — songs about heartbreak, a memoir-in-interviews openness about bisexuality, trauma and recovery — and the custody fight put that persona on trial in the worst way, with the most lurid claims aimed at her parenting rather than her music. Her response was measured throughout: no diss tracks, no tell-all, just a restraining order, a public statement, and — once the backtrack came — a quiet insistence that the record be corrected.

The definitive close came on December 8, 2025, on The Breakfast Club. Asked whether the custody battle was still going on, Kehlani said: “I have full custody.” Asked if there was any contact with Young-White, she said “No.” The ruling affirmed her as Adeya’s primary caregiver and ended the public phase of a dispute that had shadowed the family since Adeya was 5.

As of October 2026, that is where things stand: Kehlani, 31, raising 7-year-old Adeya with full custody, the cult claims refuted and behind them. It is worth stating plainly: the cult allegations were allegations, made in a custody filing and later walked back — they were never established as fact.

Kehlani in 2025–2026

Professionally, Kehlani has stayed in motion through the family turmoil. The Oakland singer — a Grammy nominee several times over, and an America’s Got Talent finalist long before that — released the single “Folded” and has continued touring, often with Adeya in tow. In 2026 she performed at the ESSENCE Festival of Culture, where this article’s hero photo was taken.

The throughline of Kehlani’s public life in 2026 is steadiness: a mother of one with full custody, a career on her own terms, and a daughter she describes as her whole world. After the noise of 2024 and 2025, the quiet is the story.

Looking ahead, 2027 is already shaping up as a touring year, with Adeya expected to join her mom on the road as she has before — the 7-year-old is as comfortable backstage as she is in a classroom. For a singer whose public story has swung from America’s Got Talent to custody headlines, the calm of October 2026 is the real victory lap.

Adeya at 7: A Tour-Bus Childhood

Adeya Nomi Parrish Young-White — “Bear” to her mom — turned 7 inMarch 2026. (The date is verified by Kehlani’s March 23, 2022 postmarking her third birthday; outlets confirm the month and year asMarch 2019.) At 7 she is grade-school age — old enough to remember thecustody fight that shadowed her fifth and sixth years, young enoughthat her mother has worked hard to keep it as backgroundnoise.

Her childhood looks nothing like a typicalsecond-grader’s and everything like her mother’s life: tour buses,backstage corridors, recording studios, festival stages. Kehlani, whouses she/they pronouns, has spoken about raising Adeya surrounded by“loudly queer” loved ones so she grows up knowing she will be embracedwhoever she is — telling The Advocate that this kind of visibility“should be normal.”

Through the 2024–2025 custody battle,Kehlani’s stated priority never changed: keep Adeya’s daily lifeintact. No diss tracks, no tell-alls — just a legal team, a publiccorrection of the record, and, on December 8, 2025, three words on TheBreakfast Club: “I have full custody.” Asked about contact withYoung-White: “No.”

As of October 2026, the shape of the familyis simple: one mother, one 7-year-old, full custody — and the cultallegations, made in a filing, later walked back, never established asfact, firmly in the past. The 2026 ESSENCE Festival of Culture set,where this article’s hero photo was taken, says the rest: aGrammy-nominated singer back on festival stages, with her daughter’sworld finally quiet.

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