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Main Absurdly Youthful Mother Discussion
- 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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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.
How come this trope has No Real Life Examples, Please!?
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_birth_mothers
Edit: Huh, that worked. I'll leave this here to admit my ignorance.
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?
Isn't there a trope for the opposite? Where the parents look (or are) old enough to be their kids' grandparents?
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.)"
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.