History Main / AbsurdlyYouthfulMother

* In the original version of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', Ruki/Rika's age was 10, and her mother Rumiko was 28, meaning she was 18 when she had her. In the dub, Rika's age was increased to 12, which, assuming her mother's age wasn't changed, would make her [[TeenPregnancy 16]] when she had her. Rumiko's own mother Seiko is 49, meaning she was 21 when she had her and in her late 30s when she became a grandmother.

* As mentioned above, in the dub of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', Ruki/Rika's age was altered, but the age of her mother was left alone. Ruki is implied to have been the result of teen pregnancy in the original. The dub's numbers indicate that Rumiko gave birth at ''thirteen''. Oops.

* On ''Series/Charmed1998,'' one episode shows a family tree of the Warren clan, which is a mess of continuity and logic errors. Among them is that Grams would have been 13 when Patty was born.

Subtrope of HollywoodOld. Compare and contrast AbsurdlyElderlyMother, where a mother conceives a child at a post-menopausal age, and PlayingGertrude, where the ''actor'' playing the parent is absurdly youthful although the character may not be.

In RealLife, a girl can conceive about two weeks before her first menstrual cycle, which commonly occurs (on average) at around 11 or 12 years old these days (although carrying a child to term before physical maturity is risky and has a higher chance of DeathByChildbirth; Henry VII's mother was thirteen when she gave birth to him and couldn't get pregnant again because of the damage to her reproductive organs) and in rare cases this can occur at an even younger age, such as ''five years old''.[[note]]Lina Medina, the notorious example referenced, had a case of extreme precocious puberty i.e. puberty at an absurdly young age, and reportedly had already gotten her period when she was an infant. She is the youngest mother ever in recorded history, though she was too young to remember that the baby was hers, and her parents [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo raised him as her brother]]. While the girl's father swore he had absolutely nothing to do with her impregnation, and the evidence (or rather lack thereof) eventually cleared him of all rape and incest charges, there's still the FridgeHorror question of who the father ''was''. The ''Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords'' dropped the "Youngest Ever Mother" category held by Medina out of exactly these ethical considerations; there was also the fear that somebody somewhere was going to try to '''beat''' this record. ''Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}'' has a lengthy list of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_birth_mothers young mothers]], nearly all of which have very heart-breaking backstories.[[/note]]

* A variation: in ''ComicBook/FantasticFour,'' for years, Ben had made casual references to his Aunt Petunia, who had clearly at least helped raise him and who was always understood to be really, really old. When [=writer/artist=] John Byrne finally introduced her, she turned out to be young and pretty -- not just enough to subvert Ben's stories (the implication being that he was joking), but enough to seem borderline implausible for someone who'd raised him. Since then, we've learned that Ben's uncle did indeed marry a much younger woman than himself, but more to the point, when she showed up at Ben and Alicia's wedding recently, she was portrayed considerably older-looking and she said half jokingly that she'd seriously let herself go in recent years.

* A variation: in ''ComicBook/FantasticFour,'' for years, Ben had made casual references to his Aunt Petunia, who had clearly at least helped raise him and who was always understood to be really, really old. When [=writer/artist=] John Byrne finally introduced her, she turned out to be young and pretty -- not just enough to subvert Ben's stories (the implication being that he was joking), but enough to seem implausible for someone who'd raised him. Since then, we've learned that Ben's uncle did indeed marry a much younger woman than himself, but more to the point, when she showed up at Ben and Alicia's wedding recently, she was portrayed considerably older-looking and she said half jokingly that she'd seriously let herself go in recent years.

* Julia Murai of ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' had Kunio when she was 13, and was subsequently disowned by her parents. She [[FridgeLogic somehow]] managed to get a job, an apartment, and raise a baby as a teenager in Tokyo, one of the most expensive cities in the world. By the time of the series, she's 27, and most of Kunio's male classmates (and his teacher) regard her as a StacysMom. This has [[MySisterIsOffLimits naturally]] become a BerserkButton for Kunio. The LiveActionAdaptation {{age lift}}ed her to 34, having had Kunio at 17.

* ''Literature/MegLangslowMysteries'': In "No Nest for the Wicket," Merg looks up some photos of MayorPain George Pruitt’s ancestors and observes a picture of one woman glaring at her husband shortly after the birth of their fourteenth child (she went on to have three more). She notes that the woman would have been too young to babysit by modern standards when she had her first child.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Singing" Mrs. Jötunheim states that she [[YoungerThanTheyLook just turned 28]] and is the mother of Hector who is in middle school, which is around 11 or 12. This implies that Hector was conceived when she was 16 or 17.

* In ''Manga/MrRightTurnedOutToBeAYoungerWoman'', Risa Takagai's mother was 22 when she had her. Risa is 23 at the start of the series and is [[AgeGapRomance dating a 33-year old woman named Haruki Shiina]], who's shocked to find that [[ChristmasCake she's almost closer to Risa's mother's age than she is to Risa's]].
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* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' has Kagaya, head of the Demon Slayer Corps. He is 23 at the start of the story, and his eldest child is 9, so he was 14 when he became a father. It's revealed that [[spoiler:the members of his family are suffering from a curse due to Muzan Kibutsuji being related to them, resulting in all of them dying before the age of 30]], so Kagaya ''has'' to have children young in order to raise a successor.

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* In ''Fanfic/TheFutureBriefingIsland'' [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Midnight is Momo's mother]]. This caused several issues that were pointed by some readers [[labelnote:explaination]]Midnight and Momo's ages at the beginning of the series are 31 and 15, respectively, meaning that Midnight had to be 16 when she gave birth, and thus in her first or second year (equivalent of sophomore and junior years) at UA. Even in the ''extremely'' dubious case that UA didn't expel her on the spot for that, it's ''very'' unlikely that Midnight could have been able complete her hero training while pregnant and then having to take care of a newborn, all while keeping it under wraps[[/labelnote]], which the author amended by making Midnight a couple years older than her canon age and stating that she only had Momo a year after graduating from UA.

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* In ''Fanfic/TheFutureBriefingIsland'' [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Midnight is Momo's mother]]. This caused several issues that were pointed by some readers [[labelnote:explaination]]Midnight and Momo's ages at the beginning of the series are 31 and 15, respectively, meaning that Midnight had to be 16 when she gave birth, and thus in her sophomore year at UA. Even in the ''extremely'' dubious case that UA didn't expel her on the spot for that, it's ''very'' unlikely that Midnight could have been able complete her hero training while pregnant and then having to take care of a newborn, all while keeping it under wraps[[/labelnote]], which the author amended by making Midnight a couple years older than her canon age and stating that she only had Momo a year after graduating from UA.

* ''Webcomic/{{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. 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.

** A more subtle but still prominent example would be with Harry's parents. Going by the birth and the death dates, Lily Potter gave birth to Harry when she and James were 20, and both of them died when only 21. While not completely out there (they were crazy for each other by the end of school, and James had both a good job out of school ''and'' a good bit of old family money that Harry himself later inherits, so providing for Harry wasn't a challenge), it does still feel jarring, especially given how old they're portrayed as in the movies. Rowling does acknowledge this later on.
** They were in the middle of a way of life-altering war so it's not unlikely that they got married, and Harry came along, at a young age because they never knew if either would be killed before they got round to it. It happened a lot during the First and Second World Wars, and Mrs. Weasley alludes to it as something that happened a lot during the First Wizarding War when fretting about how Bill and Fleur (the former in his twenties, the latter 21/22 at the very most) are getting married so quickly. Of course, this by implication includes her and Mr. Weasley, as her children point out.