Young adults can be a parents for teens. It is weird.

I don't think it's weird at all, because they are Sims, they're not humans. I've always thought of them as their own species. They have their own aging system, just like they have a lot of weird things that they can do that humans can't, like change their clothes by spinning in the air etc.

Now it is unusual where I live to have children while still young but it happens. Have one parent who is younger than me with a kid who is almost 18. The second child is almost 11 years younger than the older sibling.

It's weird how they don't allow a pregnancy for a certain life stage due to the game rating but they can allow... the generated NPCs to that aging.

Eh not really. If someone was a teen/young mom they could easily be a parent to a 13 year old whilst still being a young adult themselves.

"Nate_Whiplash1;c-17651117" wrote:
(who takes an hour-long shower?)

My brother :D

Seriously though, I've never thought it particularly weird because in real life some people do have children young. A girl I was at school with is 25 and has four children. It happens ?

Sociologists use 18-39 for "young adult" so I don't find it at all weird that one might have a teenage child. That would only take having children in your early to mid 20s.

My mom had me when she was 15.

"SweetieWright_84;c-17651615" wrote:
I was 20 when I had my first son, and 23 (almost 24) when I had my second son. I'm 36 now. My oldest son will be 16 in a few weeks. Also, I'm a great-aunt to a toddler. I was an aunt at 12 because I was the youngest of 5 kids. My sister who was the closest to my age, is 4 years older than. My oldest brother is almost 11 years older than me. I also have an aunt who was literally an aunt before she was born. She's younger than 2 or 3 of my cousins.

As far as the game is concerned, sims age faster through the earlier stages. On normal lifespan, the child and teen stages are only 14 days. Whereas the young adult and adult stages are around 24 days each, although I'm not 100% sure on the exact amount.

I have never thought anything weird about it. Infact, I mostly play with aging off. I made one household that has Adult Grandparents, YA parents, a child and a teenager. But then, I’m in my early 60’s and I don’t see elders as young as me.... lol. I have a sister 19 years older than me, she had a daughter that is only 6 months younger than me. So, I didn’t have to wait long to become an Aunt. My niece has a daughter the same age as my youngest. So, it doesn’t really seem so strange to me.

My mom became a grandma at 36 because my brother had his first child at 16. It’s very possible.

We are missing a whole “middle-aged” group, IMO. When my households have kids that reach the teenage stage, I give the adults makeovers with the styles of hair that aren’t as hip, clothes that seem more practical than before, and all that. I take it upon myself to evolve their styles because the game doesn’t prompt anything like that. I can’t remember in what previous Sims game they could have a mid-life crisis, I miss that.