How old are sims...really?

"Movotti;c-16805055" wrote:
One thing I see a lot of people are doing, is having the end of the Adult stage way too late.
There is no way that adult sims are anywhere near 60. Adult sims are still able to pop out babies. This means the upper limit of the adult stage has to be below 50. Which means the leap from 45 to 75 is quite a nightmare!

Actually Babies born over age 50 mothers has been a thing for decades - they are called change of life babies and not as unusable as one thinks - but it is usually more dangerous for some moms to go through. I believe that is why they include the 50's in child bearing years. I actually have an Uncle that is almost two years older than I am who is just as healthy as any baby and several of my older cousins (6 in fact are older than my youngest uncle on my moms side of the family. They were Southern farm people and that is quite usual in farm country or was in the USA anyway in big families.

Of course it is not just a thing of Southern farm families either seeing when I was a teen in Massachusetts where we also lived - I used to baby sit for two different families who also had perfectly healthy and bright change of life babies both born normally before doctor intervened to help moms have babies in their older life time - so it is a natural thing for decades. In US birth stats it states between 1997 - to 1999 there were around 500 healthy births to women in their 50's to their 60s even- so the numbers have actually increased with medical intervention as I believe naturally those numbers were not that high for both mom and infant to be healthy.

Personally I cannot imagine doing such a thing - but stats speak for themselves. LOL. I had all 3 of my babies before I was 24. That suited me just fine.