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

"babajayne;c-17652722" wrote:
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.

Definitely! I wish there was an "middle age" adulthood stage where you're mature but not extremely old. I hate when I have adult women who aged into a really old woman like couple days after the baby was born.

"SheriSim57;c-17652718" wrote:

"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.

That's what I was trying to say, it's not weird or uncommon in real life. I don't find it weird in the game either but I do tend to make my sims wait until they're adults to have children. That way they're more established in their careers. I was just offering a suggestion as to why the game does it. I don't play with aging off for long. I get bored sometimes if it's set Long.

My aunt that I mentioned earlier is 2 months and 4 days older than my brother. But she has a few nieces (my cousins) that are a few years older than she is. My dad's oldest brother is in his 70s and his youngest sister is in her mid-to-latter 40s. So there's well over 20-25 years between them. He had already started his own family and had two toddlers before his youngest sister was born. And that's just one side of my family.

"Sharonia;c-17651239" wrote:
It is weird. Especially when the teens look the same age as their parents. This is why I wish teens appearance was a bit more unique.

Girls tend to look pretty much how they're going to look from about 16 onward and sometimes that's pretty well grown up. (Think about the old adage: Jail Bait. "Officer, I swear she looked 18! She said she was 18." ) It's boys who often change more.

Adult life stage split into mid-adult and late-adult could be awesome. I have young mother too. She was bron me when she was 21.

Hmm. I know what is wrong now. Not possibility to have teenagers by young adult but teenager life stage in TS4. They are too high and to similar to adults.

its not if your sim is vampire or a witch :wink:

im glad they allow that though cause i hardly ever age my sims "realistically"

+ there really isn't big difference between ya and adult in sims 4 anyway so I don't see point in aging my sims to be adults instead of ya

"babajayne;c-17652722" wrote:
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.

I do the same, I make them over to be more 'mature'. I usually allow my teens to keep their clothing style when they enter Uni but then I adapt their appearances as they graduate and get jobs etc.

And it was Sims 3 where they had a midlife crisis. It came with the Generations pack. That'd be a lovely return!

I've always interpreted young adult to mean 20-40, so it's possible.

It's uncommon im real life, but then again, this isn't real life. It works within the context of the game.

I don’t think it’s weird at all. I’m 37 with a 16 year old. I know many people that married around 21 and had kids right away, so they were in their 30s with teens. It’s pretty common.

I think it's just a game and you can do whatever you like. In real life, it is very common around here. I'm 33 and my mother just turned 51. Soo.....