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

Also elders can be parents to elders... I've made some interesting families in CAS.

It's just when they are at the beginning of each stage that it is weird. Bella being at day 1 of YA while Cass is at day one of teen is weird. But in my game I give every YA/Adult a potion of youth halfway through, so that they age to adult at what is closer to mid-forties, and to elder at 69, so they stretch out more. I always give my Adults a slightly more middle aged look.

In my game, Cass aged to Adult about 10 days before Bella ages to Elder, which makes them close to 20 years apart.

In real life, most of my friends from high school either had kids by 21 or not until over 30, so some are grandparents in their 40s and some are still parenting preteens or younger.

Just realize TS4 Bella is one of those sims who has a teen child meanwhile Mortimer is a lot older.... yeah they've ruined the aging lol

"babajayne;c-17652722" wrote:
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....

I do this too, although the game needs more clothing and hair that isn't trendy.

@GalacticGal Life expectancy 250 years ago was a little different.

"CorkysPetals;c-17659885" wrote:

"babajayne;c-17652722" wrote:
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....

I do this too, although the game needs more clothing and hair that isn't trendy.

@GalacticGal Life expectancy 260 years ago was a little different.

Yeah, I know that, but that wasn't my point. Some people today become teen parents. So that they can still be in their 30s by the time their kid is a teen. That was the point. :)

Actually not that rare, especially if you consider that a 13 year old is a teenager. 20 is not a teen.

Considering how limited the 'teen' age is in the game, I'd say it is closer to 12 than 19, or 18, the legal age in my country, for instance when you are allowed to take courses at university. Teens cannot do that in TS4. Legal age for consentual sex, within the same age span, is 15, also where I live; and the teens cannot 'woohoo' in the game. I am certain this is based on american/us culture; not mine, and so more related to pleasing a conservative lobby than about portrayal of an actual age. I think the reason for the flexibility in relationship settings in CAS is in some part also influenced by the protested inflexibility for that in TS3. The iterations exists in a game continuum as well as being mildly related to life, and heavily dependent on politics.

I mean... Yeah if you create a young adult sim with a teen child in CAS and they have the default ages then it's a little weird. Most of the time my sims have children when they're young adults and when their kids age up to teens, they're usually still young adults but close to aging up to adults. I don't think that's too weird.

"Sthenastia;d-981060" wrote:
How young adults can be a parents for a teens? In real life it is a very rare situation. Young adults are the people between approx. 20-35 years old. Teens 13-20. How young Sims can have such old children than?

Well a 16 year old can have a baby, and have a teenager of 16 when she's 32.

According to some of these age ranges I'm a young adult who's a parent to a young adult, I'm 38 and my eldest is 19, so a young adult being a parent to a teen is not at all weird, don't know why it would be seen as such tbh (esp if you consider a young adult to be some one under 40)