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When you subtract the age (or apparent age) of a child from that of their parent, this results.
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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 [[
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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* In ''[[Devil Hunter Yohko]]'', Yohko's mother Sayoko was 15 when Yohko was born. It was [[Good Bad Girl|Sayoko's youthful indiscretion]] that [[Virgin Power|prevented her from becoming a devil hunter]], so Yohko must take her grandmother's place.
* ''Boys Empire'' has this with almost everyone eventually, but it is H-manga with [[Incest Is Relative]]...
** In order of oldest to youngest: {{spoiler|Mina Tamura}}, daughter Sakura, 17. Umeko Tamura (nee Sakagami), daughter Mina, 15;<ref>
* In ''[[Toradora!]]'', male lead Ryuuji Takasu was born when his mother, Yasuko, was about 16-17.
* Sanae Furukawa of ''[[Clannad]]'' gave birth to Nagisa at young age. Of course, it doesn't really matter [[Older Than They Look|since she seems to be eternally youthful.]]
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* Gender reversed in ''[[The Shipping News]]'', where the protagonist calculates that his grandfather must have been about 11 when he fathered a child. His aunt's reply is simply: "You don't know Newfoundlanders."
* 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 [[
* 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.
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=== Fanfiction ===
* There's a ''[[Touhou]]'' 4koma in a [[Low Fantasy|near-mundane setting]] in which Suwako and Sanae, who already have
=== [[Film]] ===
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=== [[Literature]] ===
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novels, the Eighth Doctor at one point mentions being a
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
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* ''[[Golden Sun]]'''s player characters, along with [[Hidden Agenda Villain|Alex]] and [[Cool Old Guy|Kraden]], were all exposed to age-slowing amounts of Alchemy at the end of ''The Lost Age''. So thirty years later, in ''[[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn|Dark Dawn]]'', the former player characters all appear to be in their mid-to-late twenties, with [[Spin Offspring|teenage or young adult children]]. {{spoiler|Alex was exposed to more of Alchemy's power than anybody else and is basically immortal: The only reason he looks older than his child at all is because the kid in question [[Older Than They Look|doesn't look nineteen]].}}
=== [[Visual Novel
* {{spoiler|Tsugumi}} in ''[[Ever 17]]'' doesn't look much older than her sixteen-year-old children, {{spoiler|as she stopped aging at seventeen.}} You's mother is a more conventional really-young-looking parent... {{spoiler|because her "daughter" is really a clone of herself that she had made when she was diagnosed with a terminal illness in her teens, ''and'' You'haru stopped aging too, at the age of twenty.}}
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* You might not suspect it, but ''[[Drowtales]]''' [http://www.drowtales.com/longestwait.php?order=date&id=14 Queen Diva] is a great-great-great (times x) grandma and well over 1000 years old by the time the story starts, which isn't unusual since fae (dark elves, drow, drowussu, etc.) stop aging at the human equivalent of 30 years old, so parents often end up looking the same age as their children and vice-versa. Additionally, {{spoiler|1=Diva's [[Fusion Dance]], Ragini/Liriel, makes her look about 12 once she fully manifests, which leads to a [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=7775 hilariously awkward moment] where Diva meets two of her grandchildren and looks the same age as her granddaughter, to the point that Chrys'tel's clothes (from [[Brick Joke|22 chapters earlier]]) fit her perfectly}}.
* In ''[[Sailor Sun]]'', 20 year old Bay Smith alternatively plays mother to two versions of her daughter Brady Honey Smith that were snatched from [[Kid From the Future|alternate futures]]: [http://www.sailorsun.org/browse.php?comicID=482 18 year old Honey] and [http://www.sailorsun.org/browse.php?comicID=512 kindergartner/preschooler Brady.]
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', in every session of Sburb, it is predestined that the players will all really be {{spoiler|paradox clones}} ''created'' by one of the players during that session. While this process isn't explicitly shown in the Trolls' session (though the end result ''is''), in the kids' session, we see that {{spoiler|John}} first created {{spoiler|Nanna Egbert, Grandpa Harley, Bro Strider, and Mom Lalonde}} and then created the children themselves by combining this quartet pairwise, thereby making them essentially just a few minutes younger than their biological parents, whom in most cases were also their acting parents due to having been sent to different points in time. {{spoiler|John}}, however, is quite a bit ''older'' than {{spoiler|his}} "{{spoiler|father}}", who is actually {{spoiler|his half-brother}}. On top of that, if you consider creating the {{spoiler|paradox clones}} to be a form of parenthood, this means that {{spoiler|John}} is, at age 13, either a {{spoiler|fa}}ther of eight or a {{spoiler|fa}}ther of four and a ''grand''{{spoiler|fa}}ther of four, or both, depending on your perspective as to whether the second generation should be considered children as well or grandchildren. In short: [[Stable Time Loop
* Nina and Layla's mom in ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' does ''not'' look like could have had ''13'' children. Justified in that she's a [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]]. (Vampires can reproduce in this verse the same as humans.)
* In ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', when Roy meets his mother in the afterlife, he doesn't recognize her because she's no older than he is. His father, meanwhile, looks like an old man. Sara explains that his father always was an old man at heart, while she thinks of herself as a young woman still.
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* In ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]'' (1962), [[Angela Lansbury]] was only three years older than Laurence Harvey, who played her son.
* [[Angela Lansbury]] was nine years and three months older than [[Elvis Presley]], her son in ''Blue Hawaii''.
* In ''[[Earthquake]]'' (1974), Lorne Greene and Ava
* In ''[[Nowhere Boy]]'' (2009), John's mother Julia looks way to young to be a mom
* In the film version of Harold Robbins’ ''Where Love Has Gone'' (1964), Bette Davis plays Susan Hayward’s mother, despite being barely ten years older.
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=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* Ann's mother in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''
* [[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin's]] mother Hunith looked normal enough in the first season, when Merlin himself appeared extremely young and was described as a "young boy" in the [[Opening Narration]]. Five years pass in the show's time-line, and when Hunith reappears, looking exactly the same as she did half a decade ago despite her son's sudden growth spurt (and now refered to as "a young man"), she is suddenly this trope.
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