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In [[Real Life]], a girl can conceive as soon as she has her first menstrual cycle, generally around 11 or 12 years old... although in rare cases this can occur at an even younger age, such as ''five years old''.<ref>She was the youngest mother ever recorded, though she was too young to fully remember the pregnancy and so her parents raised the baby as her brother. While the father was cleared of rape charges, there's still the [[Fridge Horror]] question of who the parents allowed around their daughter.</ref>
Somewhat justified if [[Hollywood History|set in the past when girls might get married at 12-14 and boys at 15-19]]. In modern times, it [[We All Live in America|depends on your country]] [[Values Dissonance|and the culture]] you live. Avoid posting examples of why you [[May-December Romance|believe a relationship]] is squicky unless it is declared as such in-universe by the author or the characters themselves. This trope isn't about the morality of [[Teen Pregnancy]] or what is considered [[There Should Be a Law|statutory rape]].
Compare [[Playing Gertrude]] if the actress playing the mother is absurdly youthful. [[No Real Life Examples, Please]]. This is for [[Fridge Logic]] parent ages where the issue is swept under the rug, not parent ages that could (hypothetically) be possible.
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* Hinagiku and Yukiji's {{spoiler|adopted}} mother in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' looks to be rather young to be the mother of 28-year old Yukiji, a little more probable for 12-years-younger Hinagiku, [[Art Shift|especially recently]], but she's still nearly alarmingly young to be their mother. {{spoiler|That she's the Katsura's adopted mother doesn't make things that much better, especially when considering that Mr. and Mrs. Katsura had apparently been trying to have children of their own for years beforehand}}.
** Mikoto is stated to have had Wataru when she was young (and there's implication that Nagi's mother also gave birth while she was young) and actually left Wataru in the care of his maid Saki because of it. Mikoto still looks young despite having a 13-year-old son.
* ''[[Rosario
* {{spoiler|Marine Gabrielle de Polignac}} in ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'', who had her eldest daughter {{spoiler|Rosalie}} at age 14. {{spoiler|She gave her away to her former maid Nicole, who took the baby away and raised her as a peasant. For massive irony, Polignac's carriage ran Nicole over several years later, killing her...}}
* ''[[Karin]]'': When Kenta was born, his mother was 16 and his father was 19.
=== [[Film]] ===
* Parodied in ''[[Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood]]'', where the father of Ashtray (played by Shawn Wayans) is played by Lahmard Tate, who is about a year younger than Wayans. This is a [[Running Gag]] through the entire movie, with things like Ashtray reminiscing about changing his father's diapers, and going to a party his dad is too young to attend. This was poking fun at the fact that Lawrence Fishburne, who played the father of Cuba Gooding Jr's character in ''[[Boyz N the Hood]]'', is only about seven years older than Gooding.
=== [[Literature]] ===
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* Several examples in the works of [[V. C. Andrews]]. Notably, Dawn in the Cutler series was 17 when she gave birth to Christie; Leigh Casteel had Heaven at age 13-14 (the books waver on this since the last two were finished by a [[Ghostwriter]]) and Celeste in the Gemini series is around fifteen when her daughter is born.
* In [[Randall Garrett]]'s ''[[Lord Darcy]]'' stories, every story that Mary, Dowager Duchess of Cumberland is in also contains an explanation that she's a year younger than her stepson, the current Duke of Cumberland. She was his father's second wife, and it was a [[May-December Romance]] -- she was in her 20's, he in his fifties when they married.
* In [[Clan of the Cave Bear]], Ayla is ''eleven'' when she has her son Durc - her sister Uba isn't much off that when she gets pregnant. Justified in-universe in that the Clan have a lifespan of about thirty and go through menopause in their early twenties, and so have children early, and Ayla was held to their standards.
* In ''Ginger Pye'', Jerry and Rachel's mother married their father at the age of seventeen, at a time when such marriages were unusual but not unheard of. Their grandmother is still quite young, and they have a three-year-old uncle, affectionately referred to as "Uncle Benny" by everyone in the neighborhood.
* In the ''[[Books of Swords]]'', it is outright stated that the Silver Queen, Yambu, became pregnant with Ariane while still barely a teenager herself. As such, when Ariane is in her early twenties, Yambu is still only in her mid-thirties or so.
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* In ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'', Gretchen Moll is a grandmother in her thirties, and still a nude cabaret performer. She was impregnated at the age of 13. Michael Pitt, who plays her son, is only [[Dawson Casting|seven years younger than Moll.]]
* ''[[Eastenders]]'': Kat Slater/Moon is discovered to have given birth to Zoe at age 13 after being raped by her uncle.
* "[[Best Player]]" featured the mother of a 16-year-old dating a 30-year-old. No mention of an age difference in the couple was made... so... How old was Chris's mom when she was born?
=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* ''[[Bliss Stage]]'', taking place almost a decade [[After the End]] where everyone over 18 falls into an eternal sleep, has ''every'' mother being 17 or below. It's that sort of game.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
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* Eureka (14-16) of ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' has three adopted children, all orphans. {{spoiler|She's the one who orphaned them.}}
** In the epilogue, {{spoiler|all three children are adopted by Renton as well, who is also 16, as Maurice, Maeter, and Linck all are shown to have the last name Thurston. It is also implied that Renton and Eureka are married, at least legally.}}
* At age 15, Fraw Bow from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' starts taking care of the orphans Kikka (4), Retsu (5) and Katz (8). Seven years later, we see them again in ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam]]'': 22-year-old Fraw has married her [[Victorious Childhood Friend]] Hayato and they have adopted the three kids, who are now 11 (Kikka), 12 (Retsu) and 15 (Katz, who even joins the cast as a regular).
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', the Outer Senshi (all 16-17) adopt Hotaru after she has magically regressed to an infant. She then magically re-ages to around 13.
* In ''[[Bunny Drop]]'', 30 year old Dankichi pretty much adopts Rin, his grandpa's 6-year-old daughter (and technically his ''aunt'').
* Yuuri (16), from [[Kyo Kara Maoh!]], adopts the ten year old girl, Greta, who tried to kill him in her first appearance.
* Satoshi, from [[D.N.Angel]], was adopted as a teenager by a man in his twenties.
=== Comic Books ===
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** During their report, while chatting with [[Freud Was Right|Sigmund Freud]], Bill claims his only problem is "a minor [[Oedipus Complex|Oedipal complex]]".
** Then in ''Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey'', we find out that she divorced Bill's father... and married ''Ted's''.
* Diane, the mother from ''[[Poltergeist]]'' is far too young to have given birth to the family's teenage daughter Dana. The quandary is explained when a construction-worker quips to Steven that his daughter is as good-looking as her mom, and Steven gruffly replies that Dana's mother is dead: he's a widower, and Diane (mother of Carol Anne) is his second wife.
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=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In ''[[Daria]]'', Brittany 's stepmother Ashley-Amber is about 10 years older than Brittany herself.
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'' has Hank's stepmother Didi, who was his classmate in kindergarten.
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** Even before that, Goku was looking young to be the father of his professor son Gohan but this is because Saiyans remain in their prime longer than humans. Neither Bulma nor Chi Chi are thrilled, and you can guess how the latter reacts to her husband's further de-aging.
*** Also, Goku's age was stilted by about 8 years (which is about the difference between Goku and Vegeta's dates of birth to begin with) due to time spent dead.
* {{spoiler|Moka's mother}} in ''[[Rosario
* Mito from ''[[Space Pirate Mito]]'' looks like she's around 5 or 6 years old, while her son is only about 15 when the series starts. Turns out she's [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really a few thousand year-old]] alien who had a child with a human.
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
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** Same goes for X-Man (Alternate Cable. He's made from Scott and Jean's DNA by an [[Evilutionary Biologist]], grown to adulthood, looks 20 while parents are getting toward 30) and Rachel Summers (Scott and Jean's daughter presumably through normal means, returned from a [[Bad Future]] that may or may not still occur.)
* In the ''[[Yoko Tsuno]]'' book ''The Three Suns of Vinea'', Khany is reunited with her mother, who was put in [[Human Popsicle|suspended animation]] at the same age Khany is now. As a result, mother and daughter now have the same biological age, prompting the former to try to make things less awkward by insisting that Khany consider her her sister rather than her mother.
* Adam Destine of ''[[ClanDestine]]'' hasn't aged since the genie Elalyth made him invulnerable when was about twenty... eight hundred years ago. Since then, he and Elalyth have had a great many children, all of whom age normally until adulthood, then slow way down. Most of his children actually look ''older'' than him, except for the twins (twelve years old) and Samantha and maybe Dominic (who look about the same age as he does).
* From the Hulk comic, the organization known as ''The Pantheon'' is lead by centuries-old, but adolescent looking Agamemnon. His immortality kicked in while young. His many sons, grandsons and grand-grandsons looks older than him.
** However, he usually takes the appearance of a [[Large and In Charge|towering]] old man with a long, white beard when he appears at the Pantheon.
* A popular strip in the British comic ''Bunty'' involved a scientist who invents a miraculous anti-ageing cream that turns her into a 15-year-old, forcing her to go to school with her daughter so the welfare authorities will not ask questions.
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* In ''[[Angel]]'', the title character's son Connor is kidnapped as an infant and trapped in [[Another Dimension]] where time passes much more rapidly, so when he reappears a few months later- from the perspective of the other characters- he is already in his teens. Angel also only ''looks'' young; as an immortal vampire, he is [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Three Hundred Years Old]].
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' takes this to insane levels, where, due to a mixture of time travel, [[The Nth Doctor|Regeneration]] and slower aging, {{spoiler|Melody Pond}} is physically in her 40s for much of the series (though chronologically at least a decade older by her {{spoiler|River Song}} incarnation]]), while her parents are physically in their 20s (though mentally, her father is technically {{spoiler|almost 2000}}).
* [[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]] was somewhere in her 20s/30s when she had her daughter Eve. Shortly after Eve's birth, Xena was frozen in ice for two decades. When she emerges unaged, she and Eve look the same age - and physically, that's almost the case.
* In ''[[Torchwood: Children of Earth]]'', the immortal Jack's daughter Alice is upset that she looks older than him.
* ''[[Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger]]'': Asuka and Mahoro are both around their early 20s, but due to their infant daughter being used as a host for the soul of the [[Big Bad]], she first appears as a child of around seven and then a young woman in her late teens, while her parents remain the same age.
=== [[Theater]] ===
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* Nana Sawada, mother of protagonist Tsunayoshi from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', is in her mid-late thirties but looks barely older than her teenage son.
* {{spoiler|Miyuki Asaka}} of ''[[Game X Rush]]'' falls squarely into this trope; even the mangaka mentions that "I feel like her face and personality are stuck as a little girl forever." Also a borderline Type 1 case since simple math shows she'd have been 18 when she had her son.
* In ''[[Otaku no Musume
* Kusanagi in ''[[The Sky Crawlers]]'' looks about twelve to fifteen, but is {{spoiler|[[Older Than They Look|older]]}} than she looks.
* In ''[[Clannad]]'', Sanae Furukawa looks like she's only slightly older, ''at most'', than her daughter Nagisa. Fitting, seeing as she's a [[Hot Shonen Mom]]. She looks young enough to pass for being the granddaughter of her granddaughter's paternal great-grandmother, who is herself quite young for being a great grandmother.
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* In ''[[Medaka Box]]'', Zenkichi's mother even passes as an elementary school student, despite being 42 years old.
* Bulma's mother from ''[[Dragon Ball]]''. While Bulma's character model is appropriately updated for her age, as she goes from 16 to 43, her mother's never changes. The result is that in some of her last appearances she actually looks younger than her own daughter.
* Akira's parents in [[Family Complex]] could pass off as 17 despite being around 40 years old.
** [[Lampshaded]] in the [[Princess Princess]] crossover manga when Toru and Yuujiro try to guess who is who in the Sakamoto family. They tend to get it wrong.
* In ''[[Code Breaker]]'', Sakura's mother was mistaken as her elementary school sister.
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=== [[Video Games]] ===
* Yuki's mother in ''[[Grandia III]]'', who is 34 while he is 16, but [[Younger Than They Look|looks about 20]]. For most of the game, they have more of a sibling relationship than a typical parent/child one, made clearest by the fact that Yuki calls her "Miranda" rather than "Mom."
** Hilariously lampshaded in the ''[[X-Play]]'' review of the game and in ''[[Unskippable]]''.
*** ''...heyyukiyourmomishot...''
* In ''[[Dragon's Lair|Dragon's Lair 2]]'', Princess Daphne has 13 kids, the oldest of whom looks about 13, and she still looks exactly the same as she did in the first game.
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=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* In ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', it's never stated how old [http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/File:EyesWideOpen.jpg Bulma's mother] is.
* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'': It is never stated how old Syaoran's mother Yelan is, only that she looks very young and beautiful enough to stand out [[CLAMP|in a universe]] ''populated'' by [[The Beautiful Elite]]. She is, however, ''thought'' to be somewhere in her mid-to-late 30's, and possibly married as a teenager. This is never confirmed, because she is only seen in the first OVA.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
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** [[Hand Wave|Did they ever say he wasn't a genius who]] [[Doogie Howser, M.D.|graduated high school at 11, college at 14, and medical school at 18?]] He'd be around 30, then.
** Neurosurgical residencies in the US are 7 years, so he'd be 35 at youngest.
*** No, he'd be 33. Once he graduated medical school at age 26, he'd have seven years of residency, making him 33.
=== Webcomics ===
* [[Homestuck]]. Bro Strider. Most fans think of Bro as being in his early/middle 20s, until you sit down and do the math. He was at least an adult - 18 - when he adopted baby!Dave. Dave is thirteen now, making bro at least 31. The same might apply to Mama Lalonde and Dad Egbert, but Mom and Dad seem to be thought of as "older" than Bro, so I don't know. The whole lot of them don't seem to change in appearance between adopting their children and thirteen years later.
* The Egbert Family. Nana was born in 1910. John was "born" in 1996. Dad appears to be a regular middle aged man, but if Nana had Dad around age 20 (as was normal for a woman of her time period) Dad would have to be in his sixties when John is "born." If Dad is about, say, 40 when John is 13, Nana would have had to have given birth to him in HER fifties-sixties. It's unclear how old Dad is SUPPOSED to be, but so far it doesn't seem to add up when considering Nana's and John's ages.
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=== Fanfic ===
* ''[[Past Sins]]'' has [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Twilight]] adopt the magically generated Nyx. Biologically, they're a teen/young adult and child respectively, and that's not even going into the newly-made or millennium-old question with Nyx. {{spoiler|And things get even ''weirder'' when Nyx is artificially aged up to an adult ''horse''...}}
** There's also the fact that some of Twilight's blood was used in the ritual to resurrect Nightmare Moon (due to her status as the Element of Magic), possibly making her a [[Truly Single Parent]] or some weird case of [[Has Two Mommies]] with Princess Luna.
* In ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]'', Taliana is said to be a clone of Sakura (who in canon is 12-13 pre-timeskip and 15-16 post-timeskip, and whose age is never stated here). She is also {{spoiler|Ronan's}} mother and he is clearly stated to be 13 years old (although considering that Madara has the ability to travel back in time, that might be in play). Meanwhile, Sakura herself falls into a case of an absurdly young birth mother if we are to assume that she's the same age as in canon, since she gets pregnant and gives birth during the fic.
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