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Jenna: I can't believe it Alli, I'm pregnant... and I'm a teenager. I'm a...A stock plot. The pregnancy of an adolescent girl who hasn't finished her education, maturation of body and mind, and isn't in a stable relationship (don't expect the dad to stick around if he's similarly young). The actual age at which the pregnancy isn't an issue anymore varies according to these factors. This trope is usually the result of adolescents fooling around without protection or not fully understanding the biology and mechanics at work, though in particularly dark works, it may be the result of rape. Another possibility is if the girl became pregnant from the very first time she had sex, driving home the message that even a single night of indiscretion can have consequences. The typical fictional teenager generally tries to hide her pregnancy from her parents for as long as possible, which never actually equates to when she starts looking visibly pregnant. This may ultimately result in a Prom Baby. When hiding it from others besides the parents see Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism. Since Status Quo Is God, most earlier works will have the young mother suffer a Convenient Miscarriage or else put it up for adoption. If this is a soap opera, you can count on the child returning to find his or her real parents as soon as he or she reaches adulthood, which usually takes about ten years. This can even affect shows that don't have long enough runs to see the teenage mother grow up, as an adult character can be revealed to have given up a child for adoption as a teenager. Another option to avoid scandal is for the girl's parents to raise their grandchild as their own, and the baby grows up particularly close with their "big sister." This will lead to no shortage of angst all around when the truth inevitably comes out. More recently, however, abortions are becoming a solution, although this is still rare. Even more recently, there's been a trend toward keeping and raising the baby, although this is hardly exclusive to very recent works. A very common reason a character might be a Tragic Dropout. Sadly Truth in Television to many, many girls. This has become MTV's primary show content.
Alli: ...Pregnant teenager?
Alli: ...Pregnant teenager?
— Degrassi
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- Played for Laughs in a Burger King commercial for chicken fries: a teenage hen gets pregnant by a pack of French fries.
- In a campaign to reduce the incidence of this trope in real life, the city of Chicago ran an awareness campaign featuring pregnant teenage boys to draw attention to the problem.
Anime and Manga
- Played straight in Bokurano. A girl who's Hot for Teacher gets led into a trap and gang raped by his friends, getting her pregnant. (This had to be Bowdlerized in the anime, where she doesn't get raped but her asshole teacher/boyfriend stil screws her over badly and gets her rep totally smeared.) She then unknowingly signed her life away when she agreed to pilot a Humongous Mecha, as it drains her life energy entirely once she uses it; unfortunately, that means her baby also dies. She goes on a rampage, killing those who raped her, and almost kills her teacher when she is stopped by her sister, whom he was dating and she protects him and attempts to calm her down via telling her "Go Through Me"; the girl calms down enough to destroy the enemy, and then she and the baby die. It is later revealed that her baby counted to the number of pilots piloting the mech, meaning the group was one short — and if the baby had been called to pilot, they all would have been doomed. It should be noted that the girl in question is a middle school freshman, so she can't be older than fourteen.
- The manga Akkan Baby is about this. It's the farthest thing from an angst-fest though.
- In Bitter Virgin, Hinako was abused by her stepfather and got pregnant twice. She had a miscarriage the first time, then gave the second child into adoption so he could have a better life.
- As revealed in an early novelization of Pokémon, Delia Ketchum is 28. Her son Ash is 10.
- Utilized in the 3rd Fushigi Yuugi OVA. Miaka (age 18) married Hot Teacher Taka Tsukunami Tamahome reincarnated after graduation, and she is 3 months pregnant with her first child. The baby is transferred out of her body and into that of a 16-year-old named Mayo Sakaki, Taka's pupil, who wants Taka all for herself, while poor Miaka falls into a coma. It is the Shinzaho needed to summon Suzaku and save the Universe of the Four Gods. Furthermore, it was subconsciously given to Mayo by Miaka, not stolen by Mayo, even though it seems that way at first. The baby is then returned to the mother, and later Miaka gives birth to a healthy baby girl named Hikari.
- In Sakende Yaruze! Shino and Misao think they want to have kids at 17. When Misao does get pregnant, she leaves Shino so as not to wreck his future, not telling him about it and giving birth to Nakaya alone. 17 years later, Nakaya and his girlfriend have a pregnancy scare, but luckily for Nakaya she was just a little late.
- This happens to Ed's friend and Implied Love Interest Rose in Fullmetal Alchemist. She's heavily implied to have been raped, and her kid was born from that. She's seen with her son the second time we see her and by her cameo Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa he's a toddler.
- The title character of Devil Hunter Yohko was a product of this. Since becoming a Devil Hunter requires remaining celibate until age 16, this is why Yohko is her grandmother's successor and not her mother's.
- The main character Yukino Miyazawa in Kare Kano. She and Arima started to be sexually active when in high school, and Yukino got pregnant in their last HS year. They got married after graduation and, due to economic problems, Yukino herself remained a House Wife for a while; when her older daughter Sakura and the Half-Identical Twins that followed were more or less grown, she went to college and became a doctor.
- An extreme example provides the main plot of Kodomo no Kodomo, where both parents are in fifth grade.
- Shaman King: Hana Asakura was born when his parents, Yoh and Anna were 16. There's a scene that all but stated Yoh and Anna had Their First Time fairly early in the manga which is heavily implied to be when he was conceived. This was fan speculation in the original series, but Shaman King Flowers confirmed it.
- In Fruits Basket, Kyoko is something like 16 when she gets pregnant with Tohru. She's already married, but she's still scared and unsure about raising a child, until Katsuya reminds her that she's not going to have to do it alone. She still ends up as a young single parent without a high school education after he dies a couple years later.
- From the New World: We last see Maria and Mamoru when they are 14 and 12 years later, it's revealed they have a child who was born shortly before they were killed. The child appears to be a preteen.
- In One Piece, Scarlett was only 19 when she had Rebecca.
- In Haré+Guu, Hale is 10 while his mother Weda is 24. It's the reason she lives in the jungle: Her city family kicked her out.
- Kodomo no Omocha: Sana's birth mother Keiko was fourteen when she gave birth. And it's implied in the manga that Sana was the product of sexual abuse, as apparently her dad was Keiko's uncle. It also would've been borderline statutory rape, since the age of consent in Japan is in between 13 and 18 depending on the prefecture, and this means Sana was conceived when Keiko was 13.
- Great Teacher Onizuka: Kunio Murai's mother Julia was 13 when she gave birth to him. (It was a Surprise Pregnancy.) The Live-Action Adaptation ups the age.
- Atsuko Urameshi from YuYu Hakusho gave birth to Yusuke when she was just 15.
- Banji's mother in Go Nagai's Delinquent In Drag (Oira Sukeban) gave birth to Banji in her early teens, explicitly stated in dialogue.
- Card Captor Sakura: Sakura's mother, Nadeshiko, married at sixteen, and gave birth to her eldest son Touya a year later.
- In Digimon Tamers, some maths will reveal that Ruki's mother Rumiko had her when she was eighteen. The dub changed Ruki's age without touching Rumiko's, so if we go by All There in the Manual, latter gave birth at fifteen instead. However, in the actual series, Rumiko did say Rika was the product of her being married before she was ready, so eighteen is still the youngest she could have been. Her grandmother Seiko is also very youthful-looking at least.
- Boys Empire has this with almost everyone eventually, but it is H-manga with Incest Is Relative...
- In order of oldest to youngest: Mina Tamura, daughter Sakura, 17. Umeko Tamura (nee Sakagami), daughter Mina, 15note ; son Makoto, 20. Hitomi Mizumura, son Makoto Jr, 12.
- In Toradora!, male lead Ryuuji Takasu was born when his mother, Yasuko, was about 16-17.
- In the Distant Finale of Inuyasha, Sango already has three children and she's only about 19-20, which is not that surprising since she married Mr. "bear my child" Miroku and the story takes place in Feudal Japan. That, and two of the kids are twin girls no older than three; the third child is actually born in that same Distant Finale.
- In Hayate the Combat Butler Mikoto is stated to have had Wataru when she was young (and there's implication that Nagi's mother also gave birth while she was young) and actually left Wataru in the care of his maid Saki because of it. Mikoto still looks young despite having a 13-year-old son.
- Rosario + Vampire gives us Kurumu's mother Ageha and Mizore's mother Tsurara, both of whom appear to be in their early thirties; the anime reveals them to have been classmates. Justified in Tsurara's case, since Yuki-Onna go sterile at a very young age, and as a succubus, Ageha probably didn't want to take things slowly either.
- Marine Gabrielle de Polignac in Rose of Versailles, who had her eldest daughter Rosalie at age 14. She gave her away to her former maid Nicole, who took the baby away and raised her as a peasant. For massive irony, Polignac's carriage ran Nicole over several years later, killing her...
- Karin: When Kenta was born, his mother was 16 and his father was 19.
- In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Yzak Joule's age is given as sixteen. His mother, Ezalia's age is given as thirty-three. This means Ezalia was seventeen when she had Yzak. Given her country's aggressive pro-birth policies, this actually makes a lot of sense.
- In the Lyrical Nanoha franchise:
- Lindy Harlaown was 17 years old when Chrono was born, and is 31 during the first series. Though she still looks like she's in her early twenties at most, and doesn't visibly age for the next decade either.
- Since the series is a spin-off to Triangle Heart 3, it's not sure whether Momoko is really Kyouya and Miyuki's mother in this universe or not. If she is, then she must be 14 and 16 when she gave birth to them, respectively. Her husband Shirou was definitely 18 when his son was born. Like Lindy, Momoko looks like in her early twenties, despite being 33 at the start of the series and remains her youthful appearance for the next 14 years.
- In Love Is in the Bag, Lulu Mennella is shown to be quite youthful, and her age is toyed with but never revealed.
- In Angel Crush, it is hard to believe that Vera Willow is already a mother of three. Serena Oak is revealed to be Lulu Mennella's older sister in her crossover appearance in Bag Together from Love Is in the Bag. Exactly how much older is not revealed, but when Serena is standing side-by-side with her teen daughter Sandy, they look quite similar.
- Strongly implied in the case of Eleanor Baker in Candy Candy. She seems to be in he mid-30's, while her child Terry Granchester is in his mid-teens. Additionally, Terry is an Heroic Bastard born fom Eleanor's affair with a much older English nobleman. No wonder the kid has... issues.
- Gonna be the Twin-Tail!!: Miharu, Souji's mom. However in her case, it's absolutely merited; the light novel mentions that she got pregnant with Souji during her third year (it's not specified, but the assumption is high school due to the fact that said conception happened in the middle of a chuunibyou roleplay, though middle school is not out of the question), putting her around 14-18 when she had him.
- In the School Days anime, Sekai believes with good reason that she's pregnant with Makoto's baby. The Downer Ending takes place and both she and Makoto die, though, so it's never fully cleared if she was knocked-up or not.
- In Super Dimension Century Orguss, all female Emaan who are mothers go through at least one of these, because their Bizarre Alien Biology makes them sterile at eighteen, in a bizarrely enforced case of Christmas Cake.
- Implied to be the case in Apollo's Song, particularly when Shogo visits his mother at the bar she runs and one of her employees makes a confused comment about how she could have a son as old as he is.
- Shino from School-Live! ends up pregnant by her boyfriend Kougami. This is more than a little inconvenient as they're in the middle of a Zombie Apocalypse. It's made even worse by the fact Kougami ended up turning into a zombie. It's unknown if the baby will be alive or zombified if they come to term.
- Lotte no Omocha!: Naoya was 12 (13 in the anime) when he sired Ashua. Mercelida (Ashua's mother) wasn't any better at 15.]]
- In Batman supporting character Stephanie Brown, also known as the Spoiler and one of the Batgirl's, realized she was pregnant during the Cataclysm storyline, and was temporarily Put on a Bus until the kid was born. She decided to Give Him a Normal Life and give the kid up for adoption, and even asked Robin not to tell her the gender of the kid so she wouldn't get attached.
- Raquel from Icon found out she was pregnant right around the time her superhero career began. Unlike Steph she decided to keep her son, whom she named Amistad.
Fan Works
- The Harry Potter fanfic It Happened One Night has this as its premise. Harry and Ginny's first time together results in her getting pregnant and the two of them marrying.
- The Child of Love: Asuka gets pregnant when she is just fourteen and the story narrates how she goes through her pregnancy and what complications it causes, and how her relationship with Shinji evolves
- Digimon Adventure: A Land of Monsters is a fanfic that has this idea in their story line. Ken states to Joe, T.K. and his wife that he had a son before the events of the main story line and before he met them. Ken is seventeen years old when the story starts. This means that his son was born before Ken was even seventeen years old. Since Ken is 45-47 years old, his son is over thirty years old when Ken tells everybody of it.
- The One I Love Is: After the war Shinji gets Asuka pregnant when she is seventeen. They never used protection because they thought they did not need because her injuries were too severe. After finding out she was pregnant they got married.
- Child of the Storm notes the canon example of Lily Potter. Other examples include Minerva Mc Gonagall, whose daughter by Bucky Barnes became in turn the mother of Clint Barton. Additionally, if most people knew that Wanda had a teenage daughter, they'd assume that she was one too, but she wasn't. She was about thirty. It's just that she still looks that way.
- This Percy Jackson and the Olympians fanfiction, called Nine Months. The main character is a sixteen-year-old demigod daughter of Artemis who's pregnant with triplets.
- More than one Kim Possible fics have Kim having Shego's child/children before prom. She can do anything. NoDrogs' A Small Possibility series is generally credited as the original/best version of this, as it is what triggered the ones coming next.
- Towards the end of Fullmetal Alchemist: Forever Edward and Winry's daughter, Amy, is impregnated by her childhood friend, Maes Mustang. She is twelve.
- This is the premise of the Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfic Iris. Although, it's a slight variation, as the characters involved are considered adults in the Fire Nation despite being seventeen. The stigma comes from the fact that their kid would be illegitimate.
- This sappy Star Wars fanfic: Forever In My Heart, actually has a very explicit sex scene at the beginning, but turns out to be a relatively good read. And seeing from this site, Ahsoka getting "preggers" is pretty popular.
- The New Retcons had this as a plot point: Elly had had one of these, and her greatest fear is rejection if everyone learned about it, a fear realized when her daughter Claire finds her and John attacks Elly in response. Word of God is Connie Poirier had one too, and that was how she and Elly met: they ended up at the same school for wayward girls.
- This is the case for any Axis Powers Hetalia fanfiction where America is the mother of his states, seeing as Word of God has him aged at nineteen.
- In Kyon: Big Damn Hero, when Kyon was born his mother was 15 and his father was 16-17.
- Tumblr Blog Motherly Scootaloo is about the Cutie Mark Crusader Scootaloo, who is preggers, and the events after. The film Juno was listed by the artist as a major source of inspiration.
- Discussed at length in "Dear Sweetie Belle", with Rarity describing having fallen into this situation- while old enough to attend school in another city, she had just started fashion academy and was in no way prepared to deal with a foal on her own. Her parents, having just lost a foal themselves, agreed to raise the foal as her sister, i.e. Sweetie Belle.
- Most of Lord Archive's fan fictions centers around mothers and fathers being pregnant and having a child at a very young age as well as showing the implications and consequences of their actions (For example, Nadeshiko got kicked out of school at the age of 16 because she got pregnant with a child or how both Natsuko and Hiroaki had fallen out of love and divorced because they conceive a child at the age of 17).
- Taken Up to Eleven in Homestuck High when Jade gets pregnant with triplets, each of which has a different father (technically possible, but not very likely).
- In The Second Try, thanks to the Law of Inverse Fertility, Asuka gets pregnant from Shinji a few years after Third Impact, despite being on the pill. Asuka is utterly unprepared to the idea of having a child, so she hides it from Shinji at first and tries to starve herself in a misguided attempt to cause a miscarriage, which causes a major strain in their relationship when Shinji discovers it. After much reluctance, she eventually comes to embrace her motherhood.
- Meg in the Meg's Family Series gave birth to her daughter Maddie at 17 years old.
- Implied in Friendship is Witchcraft. Rainbow Dash seems pretty young yet has a filly, Scootaloo.
- Juno carries to term while arranging an adoption for her child. In a Gender Flip of the "first time" variation, Paulie Bleeker was the one losing his virginity.
- There's Jenny, Juno, which features a more comic version of a Korean teenage couple working through the girl's pregnancy, despite serious disapproval from parents on both sides (the girl's older sister even suggests that they send to baby to their other sister in the USA - who was pregnant at about the same time - so that the other sister could claim to have had twins).
- The premise of several Lifetime Movies of the Week : "Fifteen and Pregnant", "Too Young To Be A Dad", and "Mom at Sixteen". Too Young to be a Dad features a similar inversion to Juno with the girl being experienced and the boy knocking her up during his first time.
- That was also the plot of The Snapper, a 1992 movie by Stephen Frears set in working-class Ireland.
- The central character of Saved! became pregnant after her first time with her (soon-to-be-ex) boyfriend because she thought that having sex would cure him of his homosexuality. Of course, nearly everybody in the movie is a fundamentalist Christian, so it's no miracle that the girl didn't know what to expect. Mary is a bit of a subversion, though, since she obviously understands how she got pregnant—she just doesn't understand why God let it happen when she fully thought she was doing his will.
- In Sugar & Spice, Diane Weston (Marley Shelton) is a popular high school cheerleader whose life revolves around her boyfriend Jack (James Marsden) and cheerleading, as she is the captain of her school's "A-Squad". However, when Diane becomes pregnant by Jack, her life falls apart as her parents disown her. She moves in with Jack, and the two quickly get jobs, but Diane quickly realizes that Jack lacks the financial skills to provide for her and their child. Diane confides to her fellow cheerleaders about her problems and the group come up with a way for Diane to make the money she needs: robbing banks.
- Gertrude Baniszewski told her ward Sylvia Likens in An American Crime (based on the true crime) that she had her oldest daughter Paula at a young age. Paula herself gets pregnant by her cheating boyfriend (though somehow doesn't show after months have passed). Gertrude is unable to deal with the thought that Paula made the same mistake she did, leading her to blame poor Sylvia and ultimately torture her to death.
- The B-plot of Peacock deals with Cillian Murphy's character negotiating with the mother of his child, a teenage prostitute played by Ellen Page, in her third movie on this page.
- Riding In Cars With Boys, based on the memoir of the same name. Not only does the main character Beverley fall pregnant at 15, her best friend Fay does too.
- Played for laughs in the second Hairspray movie. The plot of the movie is set in motion when The Corny Collins Show holds a casting call to replace one of their dancers. How long will she be out? "Oh, about nine months..."
- The main character in North Country has her son at age 16 after being raped by her teacher.
- Parodied in Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, where the father of Ashtray (played by Shawn Wayans) is played by Lahmard Tate, who is about a year younger than Wayans. This is a Running Gag through the entire movie, with things like Ashtray reminiscing about changing his father's diapers, and going to a party his dad is too young to attend. This was poking fun at the fact that Lawrence Fishburne, who played the father of Cuba Gooding Jr's character in Boyz n the Hood, is only about seven years older than Gooding.
- Rhonda, one of the teens in Summer School, is there because she's pregnant.
- The titular protagonist of Precious is pregnant with her second child, which was fathered by her father. She had her first child as a preteen.
- Slam, with the slight variation of being told from the (also) 16-year old father's point of view
- Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones the baby was stillborn, the couple breaks up for a few months and then get back together. At the epilogue, they've been married for three years.
- Push by Sapphire: The main character actually has two children, one when she was 13 and another when she was 16. Both were by her father.
- Harry Potter:
- Lily Potter is a prominent example - Harry was 15 months old when she was murdered at the age of 21 and nine months (her birthday is at the end of January). Add 9 months to that and you get 24 months, exactly 2 years, meaning that Lily was approximately 19 and a half when she got pregnant. It also goes without saying that James was around the same age. Of course, this is tempered by the fact that they were at war at the time and anyone could die at any time, with Molly noting that it was part of a much wider societal trend.
- Since the Longbottoms were contemporaries of the Potters, and Neville is exactly the same age as Harry, down to the day, it can be presumed that they were another case.
- Bumped by Megan McCafferty, where only teens can get pregnant due to a virus making adults infertile. Teens are paid big bucks to be surrogates for couples. It creates a never-ending cycle, because the teen girls have all their kids for other people and when they are mature enough to have kids, they can't so they hire surrogates...and so on.
- Diana from Gone gets pregnant by Caine when she's fourteen, leading to her HeelFace Turn.
- In Aunt Dimity: Detective, this is revealed to be the reason Prunella Hooper was able to blackmail Peggy Taxman. Peggy was fifteen when she met a brash young American serviceman, and she had his baby shortly after he was killed by an exploding piece or ordinance leftover from WWII. She is reunited with her son over fifty years later.
- Twilight:
- Bella gets pregnant with her daughter at age eighteen.
- It's not explicitly stated, but Renesmee may have been conceived the first time Bella and Edward had sex, which the first time for both of them.
- In Fifty Shades of Grey, Christian Grey's mother was presumably this (she was in her early twenties and he was four when he was taken from her, meaning that she likely would have been between fifteen and eighteen). This is never remarked upon.
- Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve. As it's set at the turn of the century, 16 year-old Olympia is forced to give up the baby for adoption by her parents.
- Livorette in Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tale The Dolphin is sixteen when she gives birth to a son after the protagonist Alidor impregnates her. The child is conceived out of marriage. Alidor himself seems to be around Livorette's age.
- Giovanni Francesco Straparola's Fairy Tale "Pietro Pazzo" (also known as Peter the Fool) takes this trope further by having the title character impregnate a ten-year-old princess, who gives birth at the age of eleven.
- In Pretty Little Liars Emily ends up pregnant after losing her virginity to Isaac and had the baby over summer while staying at her older sister's
- Way, way inverted for the Biblical figure Sarah. She's been barren throughout her life, but then miraculously became pregnant at 90, from a husband ten years her senior.
- Gender inverted in The Wild Hunt Trilogy. Judith's father was 14 at her conception, due to him being the only male around at a time when her 28 year old mother desperately needed to get pregnant.
- In the Kate Thompson book Children of the Night, the teenaged protagonist's mother was only 14 when she had him. He realizes that his father, who he never knew, must have been an adult, as she would have told him if his father was a classmate of hers. This squicks him out, as the idea that an adult could take advantage of a young girl like that is inherently disturbing.
- Gender reversed in The Shipping News, where the protagonist calculates that his grandfather must have been about 11 when he fathered a child. His aunt's reply is simply: "You don't know Newfoundlanders."
- Several examples in the works of V. C. Andrews. Notably, Dawn in the Cutler series was 17 when she gave birth to Christie; Leigh Casteel had Heaven at age 13-14 (the books waver on this since the last two were finished by a Ghost Writer) and Celeste in the Gemini series is around fifteen when her daughter is born.
- In Clan of the Cave Bear, Ayla is eleven when she has her son Durc - her sister Uba isn't much off that when she gets pregnant. Justified in-universe in that the Clan have a lifespan of about thirty and go through menopause in their early twenties, and so have children early, and Ayla was held to their standards.
- In Ginger Pye, Jerry and Rachel's mother married their father at the age of seventeen, at a time when such marriages were unusual but not unheard of. Their grandmother is still quite young, and they have a three-year-old uncle, affectionately referred to as "Uncle Benny" by everyone in the neighborhood.
- In the Books Of Swords, it is outright stated that the Silver Queen, Yambu, became pregnant with Ariane while still barely a teenager herself. As such, when Ariane is in her early twenties, Yambu is still only in her mid-thirties or so.
- The age when men are married and expected to start servicing their wives, in A Brother's Price, is sixteen. But only a generation ago, that age was only thirteen, and the Moorlands were fathered by a boy who was married off at that age. Cullen Moorland expresses relief that the age of marriage is higher now. It is not mentioned what the age is for girls, but one family tries to get Eldest Whistler to give them Jerin for a night, in exchange for some money, so that he can father a baby with their youngest sister, who is just sixteen. (Men are very rare, so the problem is not so much avoiding teen pregnancies as getting pregnant before one hits menopause.) Eldest Whistler, naturally, refuses; her brother is not for sale.
- In Moonlight Mile, the sequel to Gone Baby Gone in the Kenzie and Gennaro Series, Patrick and Angie eventually track down Amanda McReady, a girl who went missing when she was four years old and then disappeared again when she was 16. She has a baby with her that she claims is hers because of this trope. It's not actually hers, but rather her friend Sophie's, who does actually qualify for this trope since she's the same age as Amanda.
- The Maeve Binchy novel Evening Class has a young girl realizing that her older sister is actually her mother and that all of her "cool big sister" gestures were actually her going all out to be the best mother that she could possibly be despite her limits. She's the result of a teen pregnancy.
- Danielle Steel frequently trots this one out, with all of her forty-something female characters frequently being said to look more like their children's older sister, thanks to them having had their children in their early to mid 20s.
- Sweet Valley High:
- Descriptions of the characters will almost inevitably include the mention that the twins' mother Alice is often mistaken for their older sister (she's presumably only in her late 30s/early 40s given that she and the girls father met their senior year of college).
- And the father looks like an old version of their brother.
- Book 10, Wrong Kind of Girl, has Annie Whitman's mother telling Elizabeth that she gave birth to Annie at 16.
- The web-novel Domina:
- It's common for people in the city to have children in their teens (possibly because they don't tend to live much longer). Several characters mention off-hand having kids they put in orphanages, and the vast majority of the current generation are orphans as well.
- Ling Yu turns out to have given birth at age twelve, which is noted to be extremely strange. Might have something to do with being an ex-succubus. Apparently her boyfriend was older than her; The Rant mentions that he was scattered over half the district when the authorities found him.
The Rant: Domina City does not take kindly to anyone who does anything to children.
- In the world of The Giver, some girls are selected to become Birthmothers at the tender age of twelve, meaning they give birth at 13-14. Of course, this only helps the jarring creepiness of the setting. In Son, one of the follow-ups, other characters find out about ex-Birthmother Claire's pregnancy and are aghast, disgusted, and saddened.
- I Shall Wear Midnight quickly establishes itself as Darker and Edgier than previous Discworld Young Adult novels when a 13-year-old miscarries after being savagely beaten by her father.
- Les Misérables. Fantine obviously was one. This fact is handwaved by an approximate date in the book ("When she was born, the Directory still existed" - that would be abt 1798). She could hardly have been over eighteen when Cosette was born, something that makes her story even sadder (dying before she is 25, her hair already grey).
- In the Towers Trilogy, Xhea is told that her mother Nerra gave birth to her when she was around Xhea's current age. Xhea is only 15, and due to malnutrition and stunted growth she looks even younger.
- In Remnants, Echo seems to be about the same age as the teen protagonists, but has a baby between books. Unlike most examples, it seems to have been some form of artificial insemination—these stories are set After the End, and her people, the Alphas, are very careful trying to keep their society viable. (Which is bad news for Echo, since her baby was born blind and thus implies that she has defective genes...)
- Sweet Ho from Rabble Starkey was 14 when she gave birth to Rabble.
- Welcome to Night Vale: Diane had Josh when she was 18 and his father, Troy, was 17.
Live-Action TV
- Pretty much the A plot in The Secret Life of the American Teenager.
- Degrassi Junior High: Spike got pregnant with Emma in the first season - they weren't messing around - and had her in between seasons. Yes, that was on Degrassi Junior High.
- Degrassi High: Erica and Tessa both got pregnant. Both got abortions. The only difference is that Tessa's baby daddy is Joey Jeremiah. In some instances, Erica's pregnancy created a minor What Happened to the Mouse?, as the second part of the episode was not broadcast.
- Degrassi: The Next Generation has covered all the bases with teen pregnancy:
- Manny got pregnant in season 3 when she was in 9th grade, and ended up having an abortion. Unsurprisingly, this two-part episode didn't air in the US on the first run, especially since her decision was portrayed as the right thing to do, and she never regretted it.
- Liberty got pregnant in season 5 when she was in 11th grade, and carried the baby to term and gave him up for adoption.
- Mia entered the show in season 6 when she was in 10th grade and already had a 2 year old daughter, Isabella. Mia was nicknamed 'Mamma Mia'. The show followed her as she juggled motherhood, school, and a blossoming modelling career.
- Emma had a pregnancy scare when in season 6 when she was in 12th grade, but in the end she wasn't really pregnant.
- Anya faked her pregnancy in season 10 to get back at her ex-boyfriend Sav and make him drop out of the school presidential run. After Sav found out the truth, they actually got back together and continued to lie about the pregnancy. A few weeks later they told everyone that Anya had had a miscarriage.
- Jenna (who provides the page quote) got pregnant in season 10 when she was in 10th grade. She tried to be a mother to her son Tyson, but gave him up for adoption after a few weeks.
- Alli has a pregnancy scare in season 12 when she's in 11th grade. She realizes she missed a few birth control pills and was really scared that her period would be late.
- 18 year old Dallas is introduced in season 12, and it's revealed he has a 3 year old son that lives with the child's mother.
- Clare gets finds out she's pregnant at the end of season 13 when she's in 12th grade. For a while she didn't know who the father was, and the pregnancy ended in a late term miscarriage right before she graduated.
- Danielle van de Kamp on Desperate Housewives got pregnant, got shipped away to have the baby, and her mother pretended to be pregnant so as to keep the baby within the family.
- One of the overarching plots of Mom's first season is Violet's unexpected pregnancy and how she has to come to grips with the impact it has on her goals. Also, Bonnie and Christy also became pregnant as teenagers.
- Sam Beckett leaped into a pregnant girl and almost had the baby himself, despite not having the proper plumbing.
- Hot In Cleveland had an episode revealing that Joy had given a child up for adoption when she was a teenager.
- Beverly Hills 90210, Adriana gets pregnant, can't have an abortion when she goes because it's too late, wants to keep it but eventually puts it up for adoption. Harry also didn't know that his high school sweetheart had a kid and put it up for adoption until he moved back to LA.
- Grange Hill was the first British soap opera to tackle this in 1991.
- Coronation Street also tackled the subject with Sarah-Louise Platt getting pregnant. In 2014 the soap took it a step further by giving 12-year-old Faye a pregnancy storyline.
- EastEnders:
- East Enders has done this several times -Disa O'Brien, Sonia Jackson and Demi Miller to name but a few.
- It even managed a twofer: Vicky Fowler, whose mother was 16 years older than her, became pregnant herself at the same age.
- Kat Slater/Moon is discovered to have given birth to Zoe at age 13 after being raped by her uncle.
- Gilmore Girls:
- Lorelei got pregnant at 16 and had Rory, and the main plot of the show is about their relationship as two girls living alone together without a very big age gap.
- Rory's ex-boyfriend Jess was also the product of one, which contributed to his Troubled, but Cute backstory.
- A past plot on Neighbours was about a teenage girl who got pregnant and wanted to put it up for adoption, but the child's father wanted custody. They eventually get back together and decide to keep the baby.
- Glee:
- Quinn, which ends up as a major problem for her as not only is she president of the school's celibacy club but has never had sex with her boyfriend. The father is actually his best friend, Puck.
- Also Played for Laughs in the second season. Brittany tells Santana that she thinks she has a bun in the oven, which becomes the talk of the school. Later, it turns out she's not actually pregnant, she just thought she was, because she saw a stork outside her bedroom window (even though storks live nowhere near Ohio). This is Brittany we're talking about. It's possible she mistook some other bird for a stork.
- Grey's Anatomy:
- Izzie had a daughter at sixteen and gave her up for adoption.
- One episode had the police find a newborn baby in the dumpster behind a middle school. The doctors treat the baby and spend the rest of the episode trying to figure out who the mother is. Four suspects were taken to the hospital, while their parents all denied their own child was the mother.
- A running gag on The Steve Harvey Show as never-seen character Tameka is in Cedric's third-period health class, has two children, and is always available to assist with child-rearing questions.
- The Tribe:
- Trudy is a teen mother After the End.
- Zandra, Salene and eventually Amber also get pregnant on this show (although Salene miscarries and Zandra dies before her baby is born ), which is weird because these four are the four original older female mall rats.
- Loretta of Outrageous Fortune, played by the same actress as Trudy.
- Private Practice, as if it didn't already have enough drama, has quite a few of these the biggest one being Sam and Naomi's daughter Maya's teen pregnancy, which includes getting married to the father of the baby.
- The premise of the MTV reality show 16 and Pregnant.
- Reba opens with this issue in the characters' mind, though not the only issue.
- Jal in Skins, although she aborts it. Mini in the third generation keeps it.
- An episode of Masters of Horror directed by John Carpenter has a teenage girl get raped by an alien and has to go have it aborted. Her father (Ron Perlman) and brothers attempt to stop it and in the end, the baby alien ends up saving her life by killing her father.
- Justin Suarez from Ugly Betty is the result of this. Hilda had him in her senior year of high school after getting pregnant at the prom.
- Used several times (unsurprisingly) on 7th Heaven. Most notably averted, however, when the Camdens' daughter Mary turns up preggers, but she denies having had sex when confronted by her parents. It was a clerical error at the doctor's. The real pregnant person was Mary's mom Annie, pregnant with the Camden twins.
- Carla's friend from Scrubs. Elliot accidentally offended her by assuming that her son was a boyfriend, when in actuality she had him at age 14.
- Both Katherine and Isobel from The Vampire Diaries gave birth to daughters as teenagers who were given up for adoption (although, as noted in the article above, teenage pregnancy as a concept did not really exist when Katherine gave birth to her daughter in 1490). In her case the scandal is because she's not married.
- The protagonist of Life Unexpected is a 16 year old girl that was never successfully adopted that seeks emancipation. She was conceived during a one-night-stand her parents had at their winter formal in high school.
- Call the Midwife has a couple.
- Also the premise of TLC's reality show, High School Moms.
- In the Mexican Telenovela Quinceañera ("15 year old girl"), the main theme around Thalia's character Beatriz was her how she got pregnant at age 15.
- A comedian on BET's Comicview joked about having a young mother: "My mama was fourteen when she had me. You know what that was like growing up? When I was a kid I'd be struggling with my homework, she'd be at the other end of the table struggling with her homework, neither one of us can play outside till we're finished..."
- Pramface: As of 2x21, Charlotte from Revenge fits this trope as well.
- Little House on the Prairie:
- Season 7's "Come, Let Us Reason Together," where 17-year-old Nellie Oleson gives birth to twins. Her husband, Percy, is at least 10 years older than Nellie.
- Also in Season 7, "Sylvia," where the titular character is implied to be 14 when she is impregnated by a rapist.
- Season 8's "Days of Sunshine, Days of Sorrow," where Laura is barely 18 when she gives birth to Rose. Almonzo, by contrast, is 28.
- In The New Normal, Goldie is a third generation teen mom.
- In Boardwalk Empire, Gretchen Mol plays a grandmother in her thirties, who's still a nude cabaret performer. She was impregnated at the age of 13. Michael Pitt, who plays her son, is only nine years younger than Mol.
- In The Borgias, Lucrezia is married at 14 and has her first child, Giovanni, at around 15. While early motherhood was common back then, this particular situation was fairly unusual even then and dangerous for the health of both mother and child. Incidentally, the child's father wasn't her (much older) husband, but a commoner that she fell in love with.
- Best Player featured the mother of a 16-year-old dating a 30-year-old. No mention of an age difference in the couple was made... so... How old was Chris's mom when she was born?
- Tanya, the lead character's 18-year-old daughter who has a three-year-old son in Single Father. The circumstances surrounding the child's conception (who the father is, etc.) are left unstated, but it is heavily implied that estrangement from her father as a teenager contributed to the pregnancy.
- In the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor Dances", we discover that Nancy is Jamie's mother rather than his sister as she claimed, and would have given birth to him between the ages of 14-16. Adding to that the fact she doesn't look older than twelve.
- Exaggerated in Raising Hope: Virginia and Burt are grandparents in their late 30s/early 40s, having had their son Jimmy in their mid-teens (15 and 17, respectively). Jimmy himself is just outside this trope having had Hope in his early 20s. Virginia's mother had her at about twenty, leaving her to be Raised by Grandparents. Jimmy's great-great grandmother was revealed to be alive in one episode, dying at 104 years of age while her own daughter was in her eighties, so she also counts.
- All of the cast members on Reality TV shows 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom, which are both about Teen Pregnancy.
- Played for Drama in an episode of In the Heat of the Night, where the baby is the Body of the Week. The girl conceals her pregnancy and when she has the baby, she throws it in a dumpster and it dies.
- Many characters in Hollyoaks got pregnant as teenagers: Cindy Cunningham, Theresa McQueen, Sinead O'Connor, Leela Lomax, Sienna Blake, Frankie Osborne. Amy Barnes had two children while still in her teens, and Myra McQueen had three; but the "winner" has to be Amber Sharpe, who got pregnant at twelve, before she was even a teenager.
- The entire premise of the Japanese drama series The Fourteen-Year-Old Mother
- On Strong Medicine, as Dr. Lu Delgado tries to caution teenage girls against having sex and stresses the importance of using birth control should they decide to, she reveals, "I'm 30 and my son is 14", thus enabling the girls to do the math and realize that her son is the result of this.
- Exaggerated on Switch Reloaded: Dennis aus Huerth is 20, and his grandmother is in her late 30s.
- In Night and Day, Jane Harper fell pregnant with Sam Armstrongs child aged fifteen, but had an abortion.
- 3-Nen B-Gumi Kinpachi-sensei is about a middle school Psychologist Teacher. It has covered a multitude of topics, including teen pregnancy,
- "Annie Got A Baby" by Hank Ballard actually caused controversy in 1954 for being about this topic.
- "National Haiku Contest" by The Fugs, from It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest:
Do not tell me I am the source of your knock upThe mud elephant wading through the sea leaves no tracks.
- Madonna's song "Papa Don't Preach" from True Blue is about a teenage girl who wants to keep her baby (and her boyfriend has offered to marry her, while her friends tell her "Give Him a Normal Life instead!") and confronts her father about it.
- "Brenda's Got a Baby" by Tupac Shakur (Tear Jerker alert!)
- Implied in the song "Run Joey Run".
- In Smash Mouth's "Nervous in the Alley," a 15-year-old runs away from home because she's pregnant.
- "Rock'n'roll Lullaby", written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, recorded by B. J. Thomas. The lyrics says:
"She was just 16 and all alonewhen I came to beso we grew up togethermy momma-child and me"
- John Hiatt's "Good as She Could Be" is about a woman who had a baby at eighteen.
- "Runaway Love" by Ludacris has a preteen example. An eleven year old ends up pregnant by her sixteen year old boyfriend. He dumps her and her family can't afford an abortion so she runs away.
- Kenny Chesney's "There Goes My Life" follows a teenage father as he deals with his child growing up.
Newspaper Comics
- Lisa in Funky Winkerbean got pregnant and gave the baby, a son, up for adoption way back when, back before the first time skip. Before she died, Lisa was able to reunite with her son, revealed to be Darin Fairgood.
- A story arc in Zits had Jeromy, Hector and Pierce portrayed as heavily pregnant while in their high school. After three days of contextless agony, it's revealed that the boys were forced to wear empathy bellies after laughing teen pregnancy in a sex ed class.
- Mrs. Walker at the beginning of the 1993 musical of Tommy, who is pregnant at age 16 during World War II.
- In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's mother says she was already a mother at Juliet's current age (nearly 14) in justification of Juliet's Arranged Marriage with Paris. Which was normal... back then, as girls from rich families got married around that age to cement alliances, and also so they'd have as many kids as possible and not be a burden for their parents. Poorer women would marry later (around 23 or older), as they and their possible suitors would take far more time to gather enough money for a decent-sized dowry and household, and legally male and female apprentices could not marry until they completed their indenture.
Video Games
- Teenager Katarin is pregnant with Duane's child in Final Fantasy VI... an odd rarity in video games as a matter of Getting Crap Past the Radar because of their ages.
- Heather from Silent Hill 3 is pregnant... for some reason, carrying an unborn god inside her womb. And she does not look like a pregnant woman at all.
- Leisure Suit Larry: Love For Sail has Nailmi and Wydoncha Jugg, a mother-and-daughter pair of country/western singers who look almost identical. This being Leisure Suit Larry, the game hangs a lampshade on this, implying that Nailmi gave birth to Wydoncha at an improbably young age.
- Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War has a few first-generation parents (or potential parents) who are very young, such as Sylvia and Dew. It's not incongruous with the medieval setting, though.
- Same goes to Fire Emblem Awakening, where kids no older than 15 (like Lissa, Ricken or Donnel, and probably Maribelle and Henry) are said to become parents. While in most cases it's due to their children having come from the future, a few potential pairings result in this occurring normally. It can also be the case of the Avatar and his/her child Morgan, should you style your Avatar according to the younger and cuter Second Build.
- Joel from The Last of Us. He had his daughter Sarah before he could go to college.
- Jessie from HuniePop had her daughter, Tiffany, at the age of 16.
- In an even more obtuse example, Cloud from Final Fantasy VII had a young mother whose age is given in an artbook as 33. Since we only encounter her in one scene in which Cloud is 16, this means she had him when she was about 17. She's also a single parent, though Cloud claims this is because his father died, and apparently doesn't have the same last name as her son.
- Can be invoked in Harvest Moon. Several bachelorettes such as Luna from Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility, Lumina from Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, and Ann from Harvest Moon 64 are of marriage age but are under twenty. You can court them, marry them, and have a child with them.
Visual Novels
- Sanae Furukawa gave birth to Nagisa at young age. Of course, it doesn't really matter since she seems to be eternally youthful.
- Seems to be very common in Clannad or just Key's works in general. Tomoya's mother gave birth to him shortly after marrying her husband. His parents married when his father was still in school.
- Seems to run in the family. Nagisa gets pregnant shortly after marrying Tomoya, though technically she's not a teen, but around 20 (the age of majority in Japan). It's actually Tomoya who's the teenager having a child (he's around a year younger than Nagisa).
- Sakura's mother in Kare wa kanojo. She was seduced and impregnated by her then-teacher.
- In Umineko: When They Cry, Beatrice Ushiromiya, first introduced in EP3 as the Beatrice from 1967 is revealed to have had this. She was in fact Kinzo's illegitimate daughter with his secret lover Beatrice Castiglioni, but her mother's Death by Childbirth drove Kinzo into such despair that he eventually deluded himself into believing that she was her mother's reincarnation, and it's all but outright stated that he raped her, making her pregnant with a Child by Rape at a young age.
- It can happen in School Days, and the teen moms-to-be are Hikari, Setsuna and Sekai (this one's VERY messy, tho.)
- In the Spin-Off Shiny Days, Natsumi gave birth to the game's heroine Inori when she was a teen. And in another Spin-Off known as Cross Days, if you play Ai Yamagata's route, Yuki knocks her up as well.
- Eighteen year old Hanako from Katawa Shoujo was supposed to end up pregnant in her Good End however it was changed because the writers didn't want to make light of teen pregnancy.
- In the bishoujo game Ko-ko-ro... 0, Kasumi Kuonji is revealed to be one in one of the possible endings of the game. Her baby's name? Souji. Yes, Kasumi, originally presented in the original Ko-ko-ro... as being Souji's older sister, is possibly his MOTHER.
- While not mentioned directly, in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, we know from near the beginning that Apollo was abandoned as a baby and we later find out his mother is Thalassa Gramarye. If you work out the ages (Apollo is 22, she is 40), she would have been 18 when she fell - probably part of the reason her controlling father made her give him up.
- In The Overture Vanessa Olsen was married at twelve and had a son eight months later. Her son is now seventeen and she is barely thirty.
- In El Goonish Shive, when Elliot's mother meets his female duplicate Ellen, she immediately accepts her as part of the family. She admits to herself that she always wanted a daughter, and that this time, she doesn't have to drop out. Later confirmed when Sarah does the math and figures out that Elliot's mother couldn't have been older than 21 when she had him - and taking in other context, was probably even younger.
- In Shadowgirls, Charon had Becka at 15, and Chrissy had her daughter Missy at around 17.
- In Bridgette's Belly, Bridgette gives birth to two children while she is still in high school.
- In Bad Moon Rising, women attached to the van Kolyma family seem prone to this in large part due to Chloe's father taking advantage of his position as a teacher to sleep with his teenage students.
- Neve makes an offhand comment in Ignition Zero that they and Martin have been friends since infancy because their teenage mothers met in class prior to their births.
Web Original
- Equestria Chronicles has Kettle Cornflakes, who it is very clearly stated was raped and birthed her daughter at the age of 15. Magical talking ponies.
Western Animation
- Family Guy:
- Meg has a pregnancy scare in the episode "Peter's Daughter".
- And then there's the song "Prom Night Dumpster Baby".
- In The Simpsons episode, "Little Big Girl", Bart dates a girl named Darcy who shortly reveals that she is one of these. The father is apparently a Norwegian exchange student, who went back to "Norwegia".
- This implied with the episode Papa Don't Leech, with Lurleen being 34 and her deadbeat father apparently being 49.
- Daria has Jane Lane's older sister Summer. Word of God puts Summer in her early thirties or so and she has four kids, and two of her kids seem to be preteens.
- Drawn Together:
- Toot is such a deplorable and incompetent mother, Toot's adopted Nicaraguan baby gets pregnant herself.
- Foxxy Love is implied to have something like this trope with her kids. At one point a member of Foxxy's family shows up and looks to be about 14 or 15. He introduces himself as being Foxxy's grandson. So unless Foxxy is just way older than she looks, both she and her own kids must have their kids at very young ages.
- Doughy Latchkey's parents Karl and Kim on Moral Orel both look and act like teenagers. They were shown to be in high school with Stephanie 12 years ago, so they probably had Doughy not too long after that.
- Referenced in the Batman Beyond episode "The Eggbaby" — Terry can't find anyone to watch the electronic "baby" he's been assigned for his Family Studies class, so he brings it on patrol with him. When Bruce hears it cry over the comm link:
Bruce: You brought a baby with you?
Terry: It's not what you think, really.
Bruce: Terry, is there something you need to tell me?
- Judy from The Jetsons is sixteen and her mother is thirty-three. That means Jane had Judy at roughly seventeen.
Real Life
- Although this is a very common occurrence in real life, a famous example is Melissa Drexler aka "Prom Mom".
- Sarah Palin's eldest daughter, Bristol, had a baby at 17 during her mother's campaign in 2008.
- As detailed on Family Relationship Switcheroo, actress Merle Oberon was only 26 years younger than her grandmother—a double-dose of Absurdly Youthful Mother.


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Burger King has appointed David, part of the Ogilvy & Mather network, as its global advertising agency.
David already works with Burger King in Brazil and Argentina. It is expected that the account will be serviced from the agency's office in Miami, where Burger King is also based.
Burger King originally began a UK-focused review, but aborted that in favour of a global process.
CHI & Partners handled the £9 million UK business up until the recent review. In the US, Mother New York most recently worked on the business, but the agency split with Burger King in January.
Last month, Sarah Golding, the chief executive of CHI & Partners, told Campaign: "We wish BK well as they make more global marketing arrangements."
CHI won Burger King's UK and Ireland account in August 2011 and has created work including "wolfman". The brand previously worked with Crispin Porter & Bogusky, which created "the king" work, for five years.
A spokeswoman for Burger King had not returned a request for comment by the time of publication.
The appointment does not affect Starcom, which was appointed to handle Burger King's £40 million European media planning and buying business last June.
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The episode begins and everybody is gathered to wish Haley good luck as she heads off to college. Although Claire is none too happy with Mitchell for stealing some thunder and announcing Lily is starting kindergarten the next day, but Mitch can't see the big deal about it. Gloria and Jay are taking parenting classes on Manny's suggestion, even though Jay has raised two kids. Phil is ready to take Haley to college, complete with three bags of hair and makeup products and a 24-pack of condoms, courtesy of Claire. It's time to hit the road, and Haley and Alex share a hug and a sentimental moment. This still beats Luke, who is wearing a mask so they couldn't see his tears.
Phil gives Haley a book: Phil's-osophy- All of the life lessons he's learned, such as "always look people in the eye, even if they're blind". Mitchell and Cameron drop Lily off at kindergarten, and Cam's already got the waterworks going. He figures it'll be very hard on Lily, who promptly disappears into the playground without taking her bag. But they did find her having her hair pulled by a boy. All's well and good until Cam grabs the boy and shakes him up. The principal is none too happy about it and demands Cam apologize. The principal calls the parents of the boy in, and Mitch is freaking out. Cam, however, is confident he did nothing wrong. That is until the boy's moms come in.
Even Mitchell knows this would be bad, as he explains with a Venn diagram how gay men and lesbian women have, literally, nothing in common. Mitchell tries to apologize, and that doesn't fly well with one of the moms, whereas the other mom seems far more reasonable. The principal tells them for a punishment the four parents set a playdate with the kids so they can all get along. The two saner parents are on board, Cam and Pam are dragged into it kicking and screaming. At Jay and Gloria's parenting class, their experience pays off as Gloria snags a blanket around their doll way before anybody else. The teacher doesn't agree with their work.
At the other end of the parenting spectrum, Phil and Claire are doing their job to the letter; embarrassing the hell out of their new college student. Phil even has a "Haley Moving Co." t-shirt with Phil and Claire carrying a young Haley around. And they think they still could. The playdate seems to be going well; Lily is getting along fine with Connor, and both sets of parents think they should be supportive of one another, being the only gay parents at the school. After all, they have so much in common. Connor's birthday party wouldn't feature a clown, for example. That doesn't go too over well with Cam, who passes a taunting remark. That is enough for Pam, who goes to get Connor, only he is locked in Lily's room and they refuse to open the door.
After one too many interruptions, the teacher calls out Jay and Gloria and asks them to share some of their parenting experience. They decide they had enough. Phil says something racy to a blonde woman who is bent over picking up a box he then grabs her butt, only to discover that it isn't Claire, but Haley's roommate. He backtracks and apologizes quickly, saying it is an innocent mistake. On the other hand just as the parents are in a full-blown panic, Lily and Connor finally speak up, neither of whom wants to leave. "I love him" says Lily. "No, you just love the idea of him" Cam says. With the promise to stay and some hot dogs, Lily and Connor open the door to everyone's relief.
Cameron realizes the one thing all parents have in common: they're a little crazy when it comes to the safety and well-being of their kids. Manny calls Jay and Gloria on ditching the parenting class. Manny isn't mad; just disappointed. Actually, he is scared about raising the baby. "What if this baby doesn't think things through? It's part-Jay" he says. "Hey, when you grew up, you had to be both the man of the house and the kid. I'm here. You just have to be the kid. I'm not going to let anything happen to the baby, just like I'm not going to let anything happen to you" Jay replies.
Haley takes in her first dinner at college and even reads Phil's book. She calls Phil and Claire and thanks them for helping her, and tells them that she loves them and misses them. She's even wearing the "Haley Moving Co." t-shirt. And Phil and Claire can't get off the phone fast enough before they break down crying. The episode ends at this point.
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That guy in the middle, he's greedy. He already has 2 sushi on his plate and he's asking for THAT one?
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What apparent effect does taking multivitamin supplements have on our lifespan?
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Which of these three has been associated with increased cancer risk?
What apparent effect does taking multivitamin supplements have on our lifespan?
So some vitamins may make us live longer; some may make us live a shorter life. What if you put them all together?
Do people who take multivitamin supplements live longer or shorter lives than those who don't?
All just seems to cancel out and give you expensive pee.
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As far as weight loss goes, L-arginine and white bean extract were mentioned on the Dr. Oz show recently and I'm wondering what your opinion is on these supplements? As a dietitian, I'm hesitant to recommend any type of supplement because we are always taught "food first" but if something is safe and effective in blocking the absorption of (some) carbs or increasing metabolism, it could potentially be another tool in our arsenal to help people who are trying to lose weight. It would take some significant data to convince me to actually recommend supplements for weight loss, but just curious what your opinion is. Thanks!
I share your concern about recommending supplements especially as it relates to weight loss. I recommend the only diet shown to work over time… the "ad libitum" low fat plant based diet with B12 supplementation. I particularly like and often cite the study, Shintani et al., The Hawaii Diet: Ad Libitum High Carbohydrate, Low Fat Diet for reduction of Chronic Disease Risk Factors: Obesity, Hypertension, Hypercholesterolemia, and Hyperglycemia, Hawaii Med J 60: 69-73; Mar 2001. I think the key concept for patients to understand is "calorie density" and not "calories". I recommend and keep loaner copies on hand of Jeff Novick's DVD, "Calorie Density: How to Eat More, Weigh Less and Live Longer". He discusses the important concepts of satiety and calorie density and ties the latter to the amount of exercise a patient does. He shows how folks can lose "weight" without exercising. I also recommend John McDougall's newsletter article (12/08), The Fat Vegan, so folks who adopt a plant based diet can avoid some of the behaviors that will thwart their efforts. Neal Barnard's "Breaking the Food Seduction" is also helpful for many of my patients to help understand that the issue is "addiction" not weak will… it is available as a book or DVD. Resources beyond that depend on the patients individual circumstances. I've been practicing primary care medicine for over 30 years and the science is clear on the best approach. I've seen many diets come and go and many "supplement" recommendations come and go. I don't recommend any of them. Calorie restricted diets don't work in the long run except for a very small % of patients. Diets like the Atkins Diet have been shown not to be healthy. We can avoid chemicals see http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/obesity-causing-pollutants-in-food/ and start adopting the best overall diet see.. http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/thousands-of-vegans-studied/. I am a fan of understanding the science and the complexity to help us understand what works for patients see… http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/how-to-upregulate-metabolism/ but we have to be able to give our patients straight forward practical information and avoid jumping on the latest bandwagon whether that is a supplement or the newest fad diet. For example I believe the best practical starter handout is PCRM's Vegetarian Starter Kit available as free download on their website. Keep tuned to NutritionFacts.org as the science keeps changing..
Where can I find a PCP like you?
Out of curiosity, do you have any "primal" or "Paleo" folks coming to your practice these days? It seems like this another diet trend/fad that is taking hold of the public and medical profession as well (our local news show even -uncritically- featured this type of diet for a week in its medical/health segment).
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I've got 3 questions on vitamin supplements that I couldn't find answers (or should I say, reliable answers) on the internet.
1. Many supplements contain magnesium stearate, which acts as a lubricant to prevent tablet and capsule contents from sticking to the machinery during production. Some say it is harmless, some say harmful. What's your take on this issue?
2. Are "whole food vitamins" really better than "synthetic vitamins"? They do sound better, but if you consider how the manufactures would have to do to extract those nutrients from food… No one has looked into how those are extracted or made, which might add potential contaminations. Am I thinking too much?
3. What does "organic vitamin" really mean? If it is synthetic (looks so to me from reading their labels, if whole food is used, they sure would mention it), how can it be "organic?
Thank you!
At a minimum, isn't taking an all natural vegetarian supplement a good way to get some of the trace micro-nutrients into our bodies? I see many ingredients on the label that I would not get otherwise. I take Solgar Earth Source Multi-Nutrient Tablets ($45 for 180 tablets…so, it's like $90/year (one a day) and it is full of things that you recommend. Granted it is all mixed together.
Eating whole unrefined plant foods will not result in vitamin deficiencies other then b12. What vitamins do you think you are missing? Also, you can put in your food for the day and see how much of each nutrient you are getting. I typically surpass recommendations eating only whole plant foods. Use this website run by the USDa for that purpose.
It would have been interesting to tease out those people who had the lowest intake of animal products from those with the highest. An argument could be made that vegans, who tend to be low or deficient in B12, protein, and iron, may have benefitted from multivitamins. In the absence of evidence, its hard to argue with your points, but I'd say the jury is still out on this question.
Vegans are actually not low in protein, this would entail caloric deficiency
In addition, appropriate iron status is not difficult for most people as long as they consume a diet based on whole ,unrefined plant foods. Please see here for details on enhancing absorption other then vitamin c.
The study you provided suggests that 3% of people actually are protein deficient, so clearly it can be a problem, as it was for me. I was at 25 grams a day protein because I had dropped most grains as a result of becoming pre-diabetic on an Ornish-style diet for 30 years (despite being slender/fit). Dropping grains brought my glucose down to normal levels, thankfully, and I've since learned to add back large quantities of daily tofu and some seitan so I'm finally stable re protein.
However, it is a very difficult challenge to maintain sufficient B12 or iron on a plant-based diet, so I've had to add in a multi-vitamin for those. Please see this meta-study on B12 deficiency. It outlines how serious the B12 problem may be:
If any diet requires supplements, how can it be considered balanced?
Almost everyone is a bit unbalanced in one way or another… even meat eaters are usually chronically deficient in vitamin D and have to take supplements.
Would if you fast or are deficient in nutrients? Just supplement with the micronutrients?
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After hours of planning and much anticipation, best-selling author Jay Asher walked into the Grant County Public Library on April 19. Dressed California casual, carrying a backpack instead of a briefcase, he addressed his audience as if he were greeting new and special friends.
The ages of his audience was a mixture of children, teens, parents and grandparents. Some had read his New York Times young adult bestseller, "Thirteen Reason Why" and some had not.
It was termed a "historic event in Grant County" by Darren Spahr, chairman of the group that petitioned for the Dec. 22, 2015 special election, turning the county from moist to wet. Now, four months since the vote, some people may be asking, where are the changes?
The wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly and there has been a state-required 60-day waiting period after the election. This time allowed for certification of the vote and for government officials to set up guidelines for licensing and fees, and to name Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) administrators.
A 63-year-old Dana employee was taken to the hospital by helicopter April 20 after his vehicle collided with a Grant County Schools bus.
The Wenderoth home in Dry Ridge is full of laughter, good-natured teasing and most of all expressions of respect and gratitude.
When Niki Wenderoth Matt was a young mother of 9-month old McKenzie Matt, she went into premature labor at just 24 weeks into her second pregnancy.
The expansion of the Dry Ridge Police Department continues with a third hire in less than a year.
Kyle Wallace, a 22-year-old Crittenden resident, was recently sworn in by Mayor Jim Wells during a city council meeting.
Wallace graduated from Eastern Kentucky University in 2015 with a double major in criminal justice and police studies.
He previously worked with Grant County Parks and Recreation and helped Dry Ridge as a part-time parks director last year.
With your first year in office over, what accomplishments are you most proud of and why?
A retired school principal in the Fayette County Public School system, James Thomas moved back to his native Grant County in January of 2011.
Not long after moving back, his sister Carolyn Thompson suggested that he join the Williamstown Kiwanis Club.
Joining the club opened doors to volunteering in Grant County, especially when a fellow member signed him up to be a part of the reading program, One to One.
A three-county sex offender compliance operation found two of 50 Grant County sex offenders checked were non-compliant.
Operation Roundball was conducted April 13-14 in Grant, Owen and Pendleton counties by each county's sheriff's office, Probation and Parole and the U.S. Marshals Service.
Law enforcement officers performed compliance checks on 91 registered sex offenders throughout the three counties, including 50 in Grant County.
The Grant County Chamber of Commerce's Annual Banquet was held April 23 at Main Street Gardens. Awards were given for Grant Countian and Volunteer of the Year, Community Service, Excellence In Business and Education and for the first time, two Lifetime Achievement awards.
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Nowadays there are a lot of varieties of toilet paper: toilet paper made of trees, made of recycled paper, moistened toilet paper, perfumed toilet paper, decorated toilet paper, and many more. But have you heard about customized toilet paper: with your tweets on it?
David Gillespie, Matthew Delprado, Ian Ha, and Johny Mair came up with the very, in my opinion, sarcastically-hilariously-genius idea ever called "Shitter". With a tagline "Social Media Has Never Been Disposable". Shitter offers you, Twitter users, to print out your tweets on four rolls of toilet paper and deliver it straight to your door. You can print your own tweets, tweets from your timeline, favorites, or from specific lists; exclusively for $ 35 for a pack of four, plus tax and shipping price (That is indeed 35 times higher than the normal price of most toilet paper! A good price for a very high maintenance bum I assume?)
But yeah, the idea of Shitter fits the problem of people in first world countries nowadays: lots of crappy tweets spamming the timeline; therefore Shitter takes the problem very literally and gives people the most original solution ever! Besides, lots of people always bring their mobile phones to toilet; for what? Checking Twitter, commenting on friends' photos on Facebook, or doing other social media activities? Well, the toilet paper by Shitter could probably substitute your addiction to mobile phone usage in the toilet!
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Oklahoma state senator wants to look at medical helicopter safety
A state legislator said Thursday he is ready to bring the discussion about medical helicopter safety to the state Capitol.
Sen. Tom Ivester, D-Sayre, said the service is critical in rural areas of the state where someone who is gravely injured may be hundreds of miles from OU Medical Center, the state's only level one trauma center.
"It saves lives," Ivester said. "There is no doubt about it. The question would be is it overused and is it as safe as it should be. It's definitely something I am going to look into."
Ivester said he is considering a recommendation made in a recent study by the University of Oklahoma's emergency medicine department, which suggested making accreditation mandatory for medical helicopter companies.
According to the study, all of the medical helicopter companies operating in Oklahoma are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems. But accreditation is strictly voluntary.
The main motivation behind recent discussion on medical helicopter companies is a series of fatal crashes of aircraft operated by Kansas-based EagleMed. The company's accreditation was put on-hold after the most recent crash in June, the third since 2010 and the second this year.
EagleMed had just received its three-year accreditation before a February crash in Oklahoma City killed two people and injured a third.
Eileen Frazer, executive director of the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems, said the commission will make a supplemental visit to the company and look for trends in light of the series of crashes and also will review the results of official investigations of the crashes by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The most recent edition of the commission's accreditation standards is more than 80 pages long and covers every aspect of operating a medical transport service.
It spells out everything from the education and credentials that should be required of medical personnel, pilots and maintenance workers to the kinds of administrative positions the company should have.
The standards also give specific regulations for when and how aircraft can be operated under various weather and terrain conditions, safety program requirements and continuing education.
The OU study was completed in 2012, before the two most recent crashes. The authors concluded that requiring accreditation would be a wise decision despite some complications it could create.
"The CAMTS requirements are the industry standard, and have truly become the 'minimum acceptable' performance level," the study said.
One complication is that the aviation standards required by the commission go beyond Federal Aviation Administration requirements. The state is not able to regulate aviation because that is the domain of the federal government, the study said.
Ivester said he'd like to see more formal regulation of the industry not only as it pertains to safety but also pricing. The OU study found the average cost of a medical helicopter flight is about $20,000.
The flights can be covered by insurance similar to an ambulance ride, but Ivester said he has heard from many people who have received bills they cannot possibly pay after being flown on a medical helicopter.
Such a flight isn't optional.
The decision to call in a medical helicopter is a clinical decision made by a doctor or paramedic.
"Even if their prices were cut in half, which would be a lot, it's still an enormous cost," Ivester said. "It's necessary, but if it's going to cost $20,000 and insurance isn't going to cover it, it's not like the people who need it have a choice."
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Following are some of the standards required for accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems:
• Proper financial commitment to support patient care and safety
• Proper insurance coverage for equipment, medical malpractice, workers' compensation and life insurance for personnel.
• Marketing and education programs that include information such as hours of operation, coverage area, type of vehicles operated, capabilities of medical personnel and licensure information
• Ethical business practices demonstrated with a written code of conduct outlining standards, billing practices and contact information for reporting breaches of ethical conduct
• A corporate compliance officer must be responsible for ensuring the service follows all laws and regulations
• Standards for various mission types including staffing levels and medical qualifications of the personnel required.
• Specific education, training and continuing education standards
• Design requirements for aircraft such that they allow for proper medical care
• Policy and procedure requirements for preventing infection and the spread of communicable disease
• Specific flight and equipment safety procedures that go beyond FAA requirements
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