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09:26:35 AM Nov 21st 2012
- In the Fiddler on the Roof movie adaptation, while by no means "youthful", Tevye was making an arranged marriage between his daughter and Lazar Wolf. Paraphrasing him, "I always wanted a son, I just expected that he would be younger than me."
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06:55:08 AM Nov 11th 2012
edited by Oreochan
edited by Oreochan
Here is a list of archived TRS threads for this page:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1338832586072373800&page=1
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1305744796040873300&page=1


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01:21:47 PM Jun 3rd 2012
Could we toss out the examples that are "absurdly youthful caregiver", not "absurdly youthful mother"? This trope is about how Mom gave birth to Kid at an age younger than 20 or so. I'm seeing examples of "twentysomething adopted a teenager", or "kid from the future" or the like, which is not this trope. Split it off into a trope called Absurdly Youthful Parent or something, cause it's not this trope.
08:09:14 PM Dec 30th 2011
The question still stands. There have been several documented cases of pregnancies carrying to term at ages well below legal adulthood. As long as supporting evidence is presented, and no baseless accusations are thrown around, there shouldn't be an issue.
05:46:05 AM Dec 31st 2011
Legal adulthood is a nebulous concept that varies enormously across the globe and is subject to change as society itself changes, lets not get into that particular mess.
06:46:26 PM Jan 17th 2012
edited by GreatWyrmGold
edited by GreatWyrmGold
There is also the consideration of precocious puberty, where a hormonal imbalance allows girls as young as five and a half to give birth on occasion. If these don't count, then how many works of fiction do? This troper can't find the markup help, so here are links to a couple of relevant Wikipedia pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precocious_puberty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_birth_mothers
Edit: Huh, that worked. I'll leave this here to admit my ignorance.


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02:58:28 PM Jun 8th 2011
About that picture. Well to be fair Sanae Furukawa eyes are of a particular shape that in some anime styles suggests that she is aged.
Still works as page picture though.
Anyone else noticed this?
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12:08:58 PM May 21st 2011
Isn't there a trope for the opposite? Where the parents look (or are) old enough to be their kids' grandparents?
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05:18:35 PM Apr 21st 2011
edited by Seanette
edited by Seanette
I cut the below from the hottip relating to Lina Medina, the girl who gave birth at 5 years old, and don't think it should be put back unless there's some supporting evidence, since this is accusing a specific man of raping a young child, and could easily be considered defamation.
" Later testing revealed that she not only had a hormone imbalance that caused her to menstruate at such a young age, but a pervy uncle was responsible for the conception. Yeah, not pretty.)"
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07:24:19 PM Mar 20th 2010
Come on, really? 18 or 19 is not an "absurdly young mother". Some people do get married right out of high school. It's legal age of consent. The trope is based on getting a weird result when you compare the mother's apparent age with the kid's.
That said, I am a real life example. My mom was 19 when she got pregnant with me, which is fine, but she's one of those women who still looks young into her late 30s and early 40s, so she still often gets mistaken for my big sister.
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