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* ''Film/{{Waves}}'': Appears in the plot as Tyler's girlfriend Alexis turns out to be pregnant, alluded to by her missing her period. He takes her to get an abortion, but she ends up choosing to keep the baby, which soon has horrific ramifications for her.
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* ''Series/RookieBlue'': Traci gave birth to her son at seventeen. He's in primary school by the time she graduates from the police academy.
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* As a franchise set in a medieval environment, this happens frequently in ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' has a few first-generation parents (or potential parents) who are very young, such as Sylvia (14 in the game, 16 in one of the mangas), Lachesis (15), Dew (14) and Deirdre (17 in the manga). It's not incongruous with the medieval setting, though.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', kids no older than 14-17 (Lissa, Ricken, [[ProportionalAging Nowi]], or Donnel, and probably Maribelle and Henry) are said to become parents. While in most cases it's due to their children having [[KidFromTheFuture come from the future]], a few potential pairings result in this occurring normally. [[spoiler: It can also be the case of the Avatar and his/her child Morgan, along with their other potential siblings should the player style the Avatar according to the [[AdorablyPrecociousChild younger]] and [[{{Moe}} cuter]] Second Build. The most notable case for this is if a Second Build Female Avatar marries Chrom during the Two year timeskip, where she gives birth to Lucina during the timeskip. ]]
** It takes place [[RuleOfThree again]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', where kids between 14 and 16 (Mozu, Sakura, Elise and Hayato) or just a little older (Leo or Takumi) also become parents, and this time this occurs more or less normally [[spoiler: and the kids get aged up in {{pocket dimension}}s]]. [[spoiler: Again, the Avatar and ''his/her'' kid Kana (and any other potential kids of them) are a case of this, since the Avatar is canonically in his/her mid-to-late teens this time.]]
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* ''Series/Lost'' : Locke's mother was 15 at the time of his premature birth.
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* The Music/BritneySpears film ''{{Film/Crossroads 2002}}'' features Mimi pregnant as she graduates from high school. She later confesses that it was conceived via date rape [[spoiler: and it's then revealed that Kit's fiancee was said rapist. When this is revealed, Mimi falls down the stairs and loses the baby]].

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* The Music/BritneySpears film ''{{Film/Crossroads 2002}}'' ''Film/Crossroads2002'' features Mimi pregnant as she graduates from high school. She later confesses that it was conceived via date rape [[spoiler: and it's then revealed that Kit's fiancee was said rapist. When this is revealed, Mimi falls down the stairs and loses the baby]].



* ''Series/{{Private Practice}}'', as if it didn't already have enough drama, has quite a few of these [[spoiler:the biggest one being Sam and Naomi's daughter Maya's teen pregnancy, which includes getting married to the father of the baby.]]

* {{Exaggerated| Trope}} in ''Series/RaisingHope'': Virginia and Burt are grandparents in their late 30s/early 40s, having had their son Jimmy in their mid-teens (15 and 17, respectively). Jimmy himself is just outside this trope having had Hope in his early 20s. Virginia's mother had her at about twenty, leaving her to be RaisedByGrandparents. Jimmy's great-great grandmother was revealed to be alive in one episode, dying at 104 years of age while her own daughter was in her eighties, so she also counts.

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* ''Series/{{Private Practice}}'', ''Series/PrivatePractice'', as if it didn't already have enough drama, has quite a few of these [[spoiler:the biggest one being Sam and Naomi's daughter Maya's teen pregnancy, which includes getting married to the father of the baby.]]

* {{Exaggerated| Trope}} {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''Series/RaisingHope'': Virginia and Burt are grandparents in their late 30s/early 40s, having had their son Jimmy in their mid-teens (15 and 17, respectively). Jimmy himself is just outside this trope having had Hope in his early 20s. Virginia's mother had her at about twenty, leaving her to be RaisedByGrandparents. Jimmy's great-great grandmother was revealed to be alive in one episode, dying at 104 years of age while her own daughter was in her eighties, so she also counts.



* ''Series/{{Supergirl 2015}}'': In her backstory, Samantha Arias became pregnant as a teen and was kicked out of the house for it. In the present, she is raising her daughter Ruby as a single mother. [[spoiler:Then Samantha finds out she is really a genetically engineered Kryptonian, but having the baby delayed her PubertySuperpower and they are slowly emerging now. She is then brainwashed into becoming the cold and ruthless Reign, who has full control of her powers.]]

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* ''Series/{{Supergirl 2015}}'': ''Series/Supergirl2015'': In her backstory, Samantha Arias became pregnant as a teen and was kicked out of the house for it. In the present, she is raising her daughter Ruby as a single mother. [[spoiler:Then Samantha finds out she is really a genetically engineered Kryptonian, but having the baby delayed her PubertySuperpower and they are slowly emerging now. She is then brainwashed into becoming the cold and ruthless Reign, who has full control of her powers.]]



* [[Music/{{Madonna}} Madonna's]] song "Papa Don't Preach" from ''Music/TrueBlue'' is about a teenage girl who wants to keep her baby (and her boyfriend has offered to marry her, while her friends tell her "GiveHimANormalLife instead!") and confronts her father about it.

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* [[Music/{{Madonna}} Madonna's]] Music/{{Madonna}}'s song "Papa Don't Preach" from ''Music/TrueBlue'' is about a teenage girl who wants to keep her baby (and her boyfriend has offered to marry her, while her friends tell her "GiveHimANormalLife instead!") and confronts her father about it.



** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War]]'' has a few first-generation parents (or potential parents) who are very young, such as Sylvia (14 in the game, 16 in one of the mangas), Lachesis (15), Dew (14) and Deirdre (17 in the manga). It's not incongruous with the medieval setting, though.

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** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War]]'' ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' has a few first-generation parents (or potential parents) who are very young, such as Sylvia (14 in the game, 16 in one of the mangas), Lachesis (15), Dew (14) and Deirdre (17 in the manga). It's not incongruous with the medieval setting, though.



* Jessie from ''Videogame/HuniePop'' had her daughter, Tiffany, at the age of 16.

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* Jessie from ''Videogame/HuniePop'' ''VideoGame/HuniePop'' had her daughter, Tiffany, at the age of 16.
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* This is offhandedly brought up in ''WesternAnimation/GolanTheInsatiable'' when everyone is forced to admit their personal shames. Alexis then blurts out proudly that she's ashamed to admit she's Dylan's biological mother. This detail is never mentioned before or after this moment, and it makes their hate-hate relationship with each other (especially since Dylan calls her her dumb big sister and not "mom") really confusing and fairly dark. We get mentioned several times that Dylan doesn't have a father, so if this holds true, then Alexis is not only her mom but responsible for taking every male role-model in her life ''and'' the reason Dylan refers to Carole by name.

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* This is offhandedly brought up in ''WesternAnimation/GolanTheInsatiable'' when everyone is forced to admit their personal shames. Alexis then blurts out proudly out that she's ashamed to admit she's Dylan's biological mother. This detail is never mentioned before or after this moment, and it makes their hate-hate relationship with each other (especially since Dylan calls her her dumb big sister and not "mom") really confusing and fairly dark. We get mentioned several times that Dylan doesn't have a father, so if this holds true, then Alexis is not only her mom but responsible for taking every male role-model in her life ''and'' the reason Dylan refers to Carole by name.
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** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War]]'' has a few first-generation parents (or potential parents) who are very young, such as Sylvia (14 in the game, 16 in one of the mangas), Raquesis (15), Dew (14) and Deirdre (17 in the manga). It's not incongruous with the medieval setting, though.

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** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War]]'' has a few first-generation parents (or potential parents) who are very young, such as Sylvia (14 in the game, 16 in one of the mangas), Raquesis Lachesis (15), Dew (14) and Deirdre (17 in the manga). It's not incongruous with the medieval setting, though.
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A stock plot. An adolescent girl who hasn't finished her education, her maturation of body and mind, and isn't in a stable relationship gets pregnant. (Don't expect the father to [[DisappearedDad stick around]] if he's similarly underage.) The actual age at which the pregnancy isn't an issue anymore varies according to these factors.

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A stock plot. An adolescent girl who hasn't finished her education, her maturation of body and mind, and isn't in a stable relationship gets pregnant. (Don't expect the (The father to may [[DisappearedDad or may not]] stick around]] around if he's similarly underage.) The actual age at which the pregnancy isn't an issue anymore varies according to these factors.

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* English comedian Ava Vidal had her first daughter at eighteen.

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* English comedian Ava Vidal had her first eldest daughter at eighteen. eighteen.
* Labour MP Angela Rayner had her eldest son at sixteen.
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* ''VideoGame/MyChildLebensborn'': The child is the product of a LoveAcrossBattlelines situation that happned when their mother was sixteen.

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** There's also Mark who had a daughter when he was 18 that he didn't know about until she was a teenager, and got pregnant herself.


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* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Emma had Henry at 18, and decided to give him up for adoption to give him his best chance because she didn't think she could be a mother (and was in jail at the time).

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* ''Series/AllAmerican'': Simone Hicks, one of Jordan Baker's flings, becomes a mother at age seventeen. She initially claims that Jordan is the father, but later admits that it is someone else; she regards Jordan as a perfect father material and wants him to play the part. Although Jordan is ready to provide for the child, Simone decides to give the baby up for adoption so her and Jordan's future won't get jeopardized.



* ''Series/{{Lucifer|2016}}'': Season 5 reveals that Linda Martin conceived a baby girl at age seventeen. She was overwhelmed by the responsibility, and chose to leave the baby at the maternity hospital. She considers it her greatest shame, and feels that it will condemn her to Hell. Years later, Linda learns that her daughter, named Adriana Nassar, works in real estate. Although she plans to out the relationship herself, it turns out that Adriana already figured it out on her own.



* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'': In the season 1 finale, Alice Cooper admits to Betty that she conceived a son while in school, but gave him up for adoption. Said child, Charles "Chic," becomes a focus of season 2 and 3.



* Naomi Judd gave birth to Wynonna when she was 18.

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* Music/SelenaGomez's parents were teenagers when they conceived her. She mostly spent her early childhood with her grandparents because her parents were busy at school.
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* ''Series/GinnyAndGeorgia'': Georgia gave birth to Ginny at 15.
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* An extreme example of sorts happens in ''ComicStrip/USAcres'', where Orson (born in the March 3, 1986 strip) hatches his children, the chicks Booker and Sheldon, that May, ''before he is three months old.''
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* Gabby from ''Series/TheBigLeap''. While she was technically eighteen and didn't find out about her pregnancy until graduation, but she was still a single teen mom when she had Sam and had to deal with plenty of hardships because of it.
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** Quinn, which ends up as a major problem for her as not only is she president of the school's celibacy club but has never had sex with her boyfriend. [[spoiler:The father is actually his best friend, Puck]].
** Also PlayedForLaughs in the second season. Brittany tells Santana that she thinks she has a bun in the oven, which becomes the [[GossipyHens talk of the school]]. Later, it turns out she's not actually pregnant, she just [[TheDitz thought she was]], because she saw a [[DeliveryStork stork]] outside her bedroom window (even though storks live [[SomewhereAnOrnithologistIsCrying nowhere near Ohio]]). This is Brittany we're talking about. It's possible she mistook some other bird for a stork.

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** Quinn, which ends up as a major problem for her as not only is she president of the school's celibacy club but has never had sex with her boyfriend. [[spoiler:The [[spoiler: The father is actually his best friend, Puck]].
** Also PlayedForLaughs in the second season. Brittany tells Santana that she thinks she has a bun in the oven, which becomes the [[GossipyHens talk of the school]]. Later, it turns out she's not actually pregnant, she just [[TheDitz thought she was]], because she saw a [[DeliveryStork stork]] outside her bedroom window (even though storks live [[SomewhereAnOrnithologistIsCrying nowhere near Ohio]]). This is Brittany we're talking about. It's Being Brittany, it's possible she mistook some other bird for a stork.
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* One episode of ''Series/ColdCase'' centered around a teenage pregnancy, with the victim being the child's father (also a teenager) who was murdered just hours after his baby was born. It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:he was killed by the baby's would-be adoptive father after telling him that he had decided not go through with the adoption.]]
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* In ''The Suicide of Rachel Foster'', we learn through the beginning of the game that 50-year-old Leonard [=McGrath=] (Nicole Wilson's dad) got Rachel pregnant when she was 16. And this occurred before her death.

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* In ''The Suicide of Rachel Foster'', ''VideoGame/TheSuicideOfRachelFoster'', we learn through the beginning of the game that 50-year-old Leonard [=McGrath=] (Nicole Wilson's dad) got Rachel pregnant when she was 16. And this occurred before her death.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Trouble}}'' infamously tried to do this, [[spoiler:focusing on the relationships of Franchise/SpiderMan's parents, Uncle Ben, and Aunt May as teens and retconning that Peter himself was the product of an affair his father Richard and May had.]] Needless to say, it was hated and [[spoiler:declared to not be in canon with the Franchise/MarvelUniverse]].

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* ''ComicBook/{{Trouble}}'' ''ComicBook/TroubleMarvelComics'' infamously tried to do this, [[spoiler:focusing on the relationships of Franchise/SpiderMan's parents, Uncle Ben, and Aunt May as teens and retconning that Peter himself was the product of an affair his father Richard and May had.]] Needless to say, it was hated and [[spoiler:declared to not be in canon with the Franchise/MarvelUniverse]].
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* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'': Shauna is 16 in 1996 and pregnant from her tryst with Jeff.

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* In ''Series/ShamelessUS'''5th season, Debbie Gallagher gets pregnant ''on purpose'' at only 14 years old. She gives birth to her daughter in the latter half of season 6.

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In ''Series/ShamelessUS'''5th season, season 5, Debbie Gallagher gets pregnant ''on purpose'' at only 14 years old. She gives birth to her daughter in the latter half of season 6.
** In season 2, Karen gets pregnant at 16.
** Ethel is 13 and has a son from being raped by her 65-year-old husband, and leader of the cult she was in.
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* Music/AmandaPalmer 's song "Oasis" is about a teenage girl that gets raped at a party and ends up pregnant. She then gets an abortion, but her best friend tells everyone at school what happened and they treat her as a "crackwhore"
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* In ''Series/{{Shameless(US)}}''' 5th season, Debbie Gallagher gets pregnant ''on purpose'' at only 14 years old. She gives birth to her daughter in the latter half of season 6.

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* In ''Series/{{Shameless(US)}}''' 5th ''Series/ShamelessUS'''5th season, Debbie Gallagher gets pregnant ''on purpose'' at only 14 years old. She gives birth to her daughter in the latter half of season 6.
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* In ''Series/Shameless(US)''' 5th season, Debbie Gallagher gets pregnant ''on purpose'' at only 14 years old. She gives birth to her daughter in the latter half of season 6.

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* In ''Series/Shameless(US)''' ''Series/{{Shameless(US)}}''' 5th season, Debbie Gallagher gets pregnant ''on purpose'' at only 14 years old. She gives birth to her daughter in the latter half of season 6.
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* In ''Series/{{Shameless}}''' 5th season, Debbie Gallagher gets pregnant ''on purpose'' at only 14 years old. She gives birth to her daughter in the latter half of season 6.

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* In ''Series/{{Shameless}}''' ''Series/Shameless(US)''' 5th season, Debbie Gallagher gets pregnant ''on purpose'' at only 14 years old. She gives birth to her daughter in the latter half of season 6.

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