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

Y'all are forgetting that rash of horrific shows on MTV here in America that romanticized being a teen and pregnant. Girls were out there getting pregnant to try and be on the show or to be popular in their respective communities. So, yes, being a YA and having a T child is completely feasible.

Edit: color me surprised that my choice of wording was conaidered bad, now its just "horrific", ha!

"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17654531" wrote:

"Krueger;c-17654453" wrote:
It's uncommon im real life, but then again, this isn't real life. It works within the context of the game.

Maybe uncommon in your own circle of who you personally know. But I know many like myself that were young and have teens. My teen is an adult in about 10 months and I am just entering my what some might call the older adult stage of life.

It is definitely heavily dependent on where you live. In the city of Toronto, where I live currently, just 1.1 percent of births are from women aged 15-19, and only 7.2 percent aged 20-24 (with most of those in the 23-24 age bracket). So it’s not all that common here.

I'm struggling to understand how this is odd at all. It's totally possible for a young adult to have a teen aged child. Also teen is not 13-20, it's 13-17. 18 is a legal adult. I'd also argue young adult can go up past 35.

But I'm not sure how this even applies within the game when the sims don't even have numerical ages.

"ListentoToppDogg;c-17656228" wrote:
I'm struggling to understand how this is odd at all. It's totally possible for a young adult to have a teen aged child. Also teen is not 13-20, it's 13-17. 18 is a legal adult. I'd also argue young adult can go up past 35.

But I'm not sure how this even applies within the game when the sims don't even have numerical ages.

Definitely possible. That was never a question imo. The discussion kind of veered into how common it is.

I guess it's weird depending on how you play your game. I play with aging off and really only age up sims that are babies to teenagers. Most of my sims stay young adult unless I created them as adults .. and that's usually just to get some definition and facial lines where I want them.
Lol.. if I do age up a sim to an adult and elder it's because they are on a fast track to meet Grimmy.

"Krueger;c-17654453" wrote:
It's uncommon im real life, but then again, this isn't real life. It works within the context of the game.

Uncommon? No, it's very common in low education, low socioeconomic communities.
In communities with higher education rates, and higher rates of wealth, people tend to not have kids until they're in their 30's.

I've got a friend who became a grandmother at 34. The city I currently live in has a very high rate of very young people having babies, being a grandparent by the age of 40 is not at all uncommon. It's a city with a high population of low socioeconomic people, and a high rate of high school drop outs, and a high rate of unemployment.
Woohoo is better when you're unemployed. Or something.

It can get even stranger. In one game I left aging for unplayed sims on. After a while the Goth household had 1 adult - Mortimer, 2 YA - Bella & Cassandra, & 1 teen - Alexander. I know that defies logic, but we are dealing with TS4 here.

I had my daughter at 19, then my son at 27

I went to high school that a girl had 3 kids by the time she was a senior. I guess it depends where you live. But 100 baby challenge, lots of babies happen. I know some that got married in the south at age 14.

My sixth great-grandparents were fifteen and just sixteen when they wed in the fall of 1761. Their first child came in the spring of 1763. So, he was seventeen when his mother passed away at just thirty-three years of age, passing just prior to her birthday that year. It all depends on when the children come.