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Absurdly Elderly Mother

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Absurdly Elderly Mother	comment	Unlike men, who never stop producing sperm and can father children at any age,note (though sperm count and quality can decrease with advanced age) women experience menopause, which typically begins at some point between their mid-40s or early 50s, where the menstrual cycle stops completely, barring any production of egg cells so they can't conceive children. Not for these women. The thought of having children at an age beyond 50 is very unlikely. They're old enough to be grandmothers, but unknown to them, their biological clocks are still ticking. That revelation can cause several reactions; It's a wonder especially for an old woman who longed for a child, and it's a shock for another old woman who had children to have another one at that age. Note that this does not apply to immortals, and thanks to medical advances in a future setting, women living longer may also be a Justified case of also extending the viable child-rearing age. Can be Truth in Television in part because menopause takes time and occurs at different ages depending on the woman. Women over 60 will have a slimmer chance of being impregnated naturally, so artificial means such as in-vitro fertilization are highly recommended. This can also be possible if the mother uses eggs from a donor, although the child will not biologically be hers. And being pregnant and giving birth at such an old age can cause health risks. Both Writers Cannot Do Math and Artistic License â€“ Biology can also be a cause of this. Wikipedia has a list of mothers who gave birth over the age of 50. Guinness World Records, however, refuses to accept a number of well-known historical cases due to the suspicion that they might have been cases of Family Relationship Switcheroo to cover up a younger family member's out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Related to the Law of Inverse Fertility, Surprise Pregnancy, and But I Can't Be Pregnant!. Contrast Absurdly Youthful Mother and Teen Pregnancy.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_14cb9f30	comment	In A Bug's Life, by human standards, the Ant Queen is an absurdly elderly mother to her little daughter Princess Dot. Justified since they're not human: queen ants lay eggs throughout their lifespan.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_1b5404a1	comment	Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Beverly Crusher is 57 when she delivers her and Jean-Luc Picard's first child in Paths of Disharmony. Justified due to the Enterprise crew's youth having been extended by exposure to technobabble in Star Trek: Insurrection.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_1e533773	comment	Beauty and the Beast (2017) continues from the animated version by having the late fifties Emma Thompson play Mrs Potts, meaning she had to be in her forties when she had her children. Given that the movie deliberately sets itself in pre-Revolutionary France (as opposed to the animated version's vague setting), it raises more questions, again with exposition stating that anyone cursed by the Enchantress was locked in the age they were.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_2168215e	comment	In chapter 60 of Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! Shinichi comes home for the first time in two years after leaving for university and the first thing he sees is his mother Haruko (age 49) holding a baby girl. He at first asks if she's babysitting, only for her to inform him that this is his baby sister Nodoka (age eight months). She is also surprised that he had no idea he has a sister. Turns out it's because her husband, Shinichi and Nodoka's father Shirou (age 46) forgot to tell Shinichi.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_2342a881	comment	In Mission Hill, Eunice "Weirdie" Eulmeyer's parents are old enough to be her great grandparents. Her father was a scientist in World War II who worked on the hydrogen bomb, and he actually dies of old age in the episode.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_2372359	comment	The Belgariad: Sorcerers stop aging at an age that "feels" right to them, so Polgara remains youthful for 3000 years and is able to have twins at the end of the Malloreon sequel series.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_2590d8fa	comment	Discworld: Downplayed with Sybil Ramkin-Vimes, who is in her very late forties at least before she has her first child. However, she has serious complications during the childbirth, though both she and the baby fully recover. The witch Nanny Ogg continued to have children well into her fifties; it is noted that this is not unusual for women in her rural homeland, for reasons that aren't explained.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_28dbacc7	comment	Patternist: Anyanwu is 300 when the series begins and continues to have children for centuries afterwards. Justified since she's a powerful Biomancer with perfect control over her body, so it's easy for her to make herself fertile and healthy, even when she chooses to look elderly on the outside.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_310d6df7	comment	Stand Still, Stay Silent: The pregnancies of a couple of female characters from the Distant Prologue come across as having happened quite late in their lives: Ingrid is on the lower end of the trope, as she looks to be in her very late teens or early twenties in Year 0, while her son Trond is 67 in Year 90. This puts her pregnancy in her early forties at the earliest. Mia is a straighter case, as she was seven years old in Year 0 according to invokedWord of God, but her son TorbjÃ¶rn is only 38 in Year 90, making her 59 upon having him.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_379c9a85	comment	All My Children's Opal is stunned to learn that she's pregnant in her early 50s, after weeks of what she assumed were menopause symptoms. Her husband Palmer is a male example — after getting over his suspicions that she cheated on him (he thought he was sterile), he's still not too keen on becoming a father at his age (70-something).
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_38ce5997	comment	The Boys (2019): Homelander states that he's surprised that Stillwell could have a child at her age (late fifties, going by the actress's age, making it a fair question).
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_3ac755dd	comment	In Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Mrs. Potts appears to be fairly elderly, yet her son Chip is an elementary-aged kid (and her eleven kids seem similarly aged).
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: The titular characterâ€™s paternal grandparents were older, even by wizarding standards when his grandmother, Euphemia, gave birth to his dad, James. Considering that Jamesâ€™ dad, Fleamont, was an adult in the 1920s (his name appears in both Fantastic Beasts films) and James was born in 1960, she was probably at least sixty when he was born (assuming Fleamont and Euphemia were roughly the same age). Mind you, these are all found outside the books, which do not state how old they were when they had James, though it's said Euphemia was older than usual (they had trouble conceiving, and he was a surprise). J. K. Rowling provided the info when a fan asked her why James' parents did not take Harry in after their son died.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_40822817	comment	Victoria Coren Mitchell, presenter of Only Connect, was 51 when she gave birth to her second daughter.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_46fd14b8	comment	In the Hero: The Guardian Smurf story "A True Miracle", Smurfette, who at the point of being married to Hero is old enough to be a Nanny Smurf, decides it's time to have a child. Mother Nature grants her a fertility blessing, warning her that she may be too old to have a child, yet surprise!, Smurfette becomes pregnant with Hero's second child Miracle.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_48776b21	comment	In Potion Permit, Rue and Runeheart look like they're the Chemist's age (roughly early 20s), yet their respective mothers Mariele and Opalheart have graying hair.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_53b32cf6	comment	Another World's Rachel conceives twins in her early 50s. When viewers scoffed at this, the writers pointed out that this echoed her mother Ada, who had her sister Nancy at the same age.note Truth in Television, as women often experience menarche and menopause at the same age their mother did.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_569093cc	comment	Scrooge McDuck is 150 years old at the beginning of DuckTales (2017), while his niece Della and nephew Donald (children of his younger sister Hortense) are both 36. Matilda (who is the youngest sibling in this continuity) is also shown to be around Scrooge's age in Season 3, meaning that Hortense was over 100 years old when her children hatched.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Sara Greenhilt died of old age shortly before the comic's start, but her daughter Julia is 17 years old.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_60156176	comment	Vorkosigan Saga: In Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Cordelia plans to have a baby while in her 70's by using a Uterine Replicator. As a Betan her life expectancy is around 150.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_6457caa7	comment	Dorna Swyft's youngest daughter Janei is born in 296 or 297. It's stated in The World of Ice & Fire that Kevan Lannister met his wife in 261 or earlier and by 266, they were already married. Even supposing that he developed feelings for her when she was a prepubescent child (which goes against everything that we know about Kevan Lannister) and she was twelve at her wedding, it makes her forty-two or forty-three at Janei's birth, and if one goes for the more realistic scenario and assumes she is around Kevan's age (he was born in 244), she is by that time in her late forties or early fifties.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_691be369	comment	In The X-Files season eleven finale episode "My Struggle IV", planned to be the series' Grand Finale, Scully is pregnant from Mulder at age fifty.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_6edac0a4	comment	In Crimson Peak, Beatrice Sharpe died when her only children were 14 and 12 years old. But in her portrait, she looks over 60 at least- possibly even in her 70s. She had a highly abusive husband, so it's possible that the stress aged her, but it's hard to imagine a woman 14 years away from looking THAT elderly could conceive at all. (The reasonably youthful appearances of said children as adults in their mid-30s, despite even more traumatic lives, makes their mother's rapid aging even less believable).
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_70a57983	comment	Prelude to Dune notes that Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen was born more than forty years after his elder brother, Glossu Rabban. While there is quite a bit of Older Than They Look going on in the Duniverse courtesy of melange, none of the chapters showing Abulurd and his wife indicated that they use melange.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: According to The Search, Zuko and Azula are related to Avatar Roku through his daughter, a woman named Rina. If you do the math, Rina fits this trope to a T. Roku's death happened 112 years before the series started. Even if Rina was born right before or shortly after Roku died during the volcano eruption (which seems unlikely given that Roku was 70 years old when he died, and his wife, Ta Min, was his age. Or maybe she was and Ta Min was also an absurdly elderly mother), Rina would have to give birth to Zuko's mother, Ursa, at over 70 years old, given that Ursa is in her late-30s during the events of the comic.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Due to writers not being great at basic math, Keiko's mother apparently gave birth to her while in her sixties as her mother is said to be celebrating her 100th birthday during Dax" and Keiko is in her late thirties or early forties. Given far more advanced medical technology by the 2300s, it's possible fertility can be extended (or they froze her eggs from earlier etc.). Also, in The Muse, Lwaxana Troi returns to the station, carrying a child and looking to marry Odo. At the time, actress Majel Barrett, who played Lwaxana, was 64. Justified in that Lwaxana is an alien, specifically a Betazoid, which reach the height of their sex drive in middle age.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_79cec579	comment	In the Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm, Eileen gives birth to Huwi-John when she is over 50 and already has three adult children.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_7a380f3b	comment	General Hospital's Tracy Quartermaine gave birth to her son Dillon at 45, prompting a guest at her son's christening to ask if she was the grandmother.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_92ae31c9	comment	Evil Con Carne: In the episode "The Time Hole Incident", Hector, Ghastly, and Skarr meet their future selves, who are visibly old. The former two have a son (which raises another question since Hector was reduced to a brain and a stomach) who is still a baby, so he wasn't born a long time ago.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_94e0f169	comment	An episode of Chicago Med has a couple in their fifties come into the hospital with the wife suffering from a mystery ailment. At one point, she gets up to go to the bathroom and releases a lot of fluid as soon as she gets out of bed. Dr. Sexton realizes that the "urine" is actually amniotic fluid and immediately gets her ready to deliver a baby.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_9b555d97	comment	In Here Comes the Boom the plot is set in motion because music teacher Marty's wife gets pregnant despite being in her mid-40s, causing Scott to take up MMA to raise money and save his school's music program and guarantee his friend's job and financial future. It's even lampshaded when Marty gets a text from his wife and asks Scott if that's possible.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_9d47a2a2	comment	In A Song of Ice and Fire: Dorna Swyft's youngest daughter Janei is born in 296 or 297. It's stated in The World of Ice & Fire that Kevan Lannister met his wife in 261 or earlier and by 266, they were already married. Even supposing that he developed feelings for her when she was a prepubescent child (which goes against everything that we know about Kevan Lannister) and she was twelve at her wedding, it makes her forty-two or forty-three at Janei's birth, and if one goes for the more realistic scenario and assumes she is around Kevan's age (he was born in 244), she is by that time in her late forties or early fifties. Alyssa Velaryon gave birth to her seventh child, Boremund Baratheon, at age 45, and her eighth and last child, Jocelyn Baratheon, at age 47, making her a very old mother by Westerosi standards. This possibly contributed to her Death by Childbirth. While not as extreme, her daughter Alyssane and descendant Rhaella both had their last children in their early 40s.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Big Mom is in her late sixties, but has given birth to numerous children in spite of this, with her youngest child Anana being eight years old.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_a144cb39	comment	Subverted and darkly justified in Moral Orel. Joe Secondopinionson's father is not only elderly, but losing his mind from dementia. Joe himself is 12 years old, but has a half-sister who's an adult. The reason for the massive gap in their ages is due to the fact that Dr. Secondopinionson raped Joe's mother, Nurse Bendy, and got her pregnant. It's implied she was Joe's current age when it happened.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_a145ed29	comment	In the Laverne & Shirley fanfiction Bookends, Laverne gives birth when she's 42, nearly 43. This really isn't that old but it's treated as a late pregnancy.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Mom is at least 142 years old, but her adult children appear to be no older than forty. A flashback to 2970 shows her nursing her infant sons while already going grey.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_a49a890c	comment	Played with in an instance in Preacher. Jesse's maternal grandmother, Marie L'Angelle, was sixty when she had her only daughter. Lampshaded by Jesse when he tells Tulip that he doesn't know how that's even possible. Marie survives well into Jesse's adulthood, possibly being more than a hundred by the time she appears in the comic, and still relatively healthy, despite being bound to a wheelchair. Marie serves as an Arc Villain, and one of Jesse's more personal enemies, with her heartless Control Freak tendencies being responsible for Jesse's troubled background; such as ordering Jesse's parents killed (yes, including her only daughter) on separate occasions for defying her, and keeping Jesse locked in a coffin at the bottom of a pond, no food, no water, only a hose for air, for weeks at a time, for offenses as heinous as swearing.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible (note that both cases were Mystical Pregnancies): Sarah had a child at the age of 90, explicitly after she had reached menopause. When a visitor—strongly implied to be an angel in disguise—tells Abraham that Sarah will have a child within a year, she thinks this is so absurd that she laughs. Sure enough, she soon has a son named Isaac, whose name means "she laughs." In the Gospel of Luke, the angel Gabriel tells the priest Zechariah that his wife Elizabeth is going to have a child. Even though the couple had prayed for a child for many years, Zechariah finds this unbelievable, since they are both old, to which Gabriel renders him mute until the child, whom they named John, is born.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_adbbbf7e	comment	Il trovatore: Azucena is Manrico's adoptive mother. According to the Count Di Luna, his younger brother disappeared fifteen years ago. This logically means that Manrico should be fifteen or sixteen. But the problem is that by this time, Azucena is supposed to be an old woman, and she had a baby boy at the time of the brother's disappearance. Taking this into account, it's highly unlikely that any woman would go from childbearing age to old age in only fifteen years.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_af6fb71	comment	Saving Face: Wil's mother finds herself pregnant again despite being forty-eight years old.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_b1e6eef4	comment	In Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, the reformed Zangyack leader Jerashid falls in love with a middle-aged human woman (her actress was 55 years of age) and they quickly elope. It is later shown in a spin-off that they have had a baby, although how this is possible may be explained by Jerashid's alien biology.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_b86b5220	comment	Spartacus: Blood and Sand hangs a lampshade on this with Lucretia's attempts to conceive a child. It's commented on how unusual it is for a woman her age to not already have children (while her age is never stated, her actress Lucy Lawless was 42 when the series began). She is however able to get pregnant towards the end of the first season, and the only reason she doesn't stay that way is because the father - a gladiator she was keeping as a sex slave for six years - stabs her as revenge for torturing his actual lover.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_b9318f96	comment	In Father of the Bride: Part II, George is worried enough that his daughter is having a baby, but after mishaps like selling the house, now he's getting more stressed that his wife Nina, who thought that she was entering menopause, is also pregnant.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_c9fd01d4	comment	In Vagabond, "Granny" Hon'iden always seemed old to be the mother of Matahachi, as even when the story begins she's a Miniature Senior Citizen and he's in his late teens/early twenties. Justified by The Reveal that she isn't actually his biological mother, and instead adopted him as a baby in a desperate attempt to keep her family name from dying out.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_ca677a95	comment	In Little House on the Prairie, Season 1's episode "If I Wake Before I Die" involves an old woman pretending she died in the hopes that her children, who essntially abandoned her, finally visit her at her 80th birthday, including her youngest Andy, who's said to have disappeared 15 years earlier after enlisting on Civil War when he was 19. Doing the math, he's 34 when his mother turns 80, meaning she had him at 45/46. Mrs. Foster, a recurring Bit Character, is shown to have twin daughters in diapers in a Season 7 episode. Her actress, Ruth Foster, was pushing sixty when this episode aired.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_cb1d762a	comment	Poptropica: On Back Lot Island, thereâ€™s a woman with grey hair and glasses, which is what Poptropica uses to show that a person is elderly. That woman has a daughter, and while it can be hard to estimate ages in Poptropica, she talks and is treated as a young child.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Subverted in Superman's story "Cries in the Night". Supes flies Jimmy Olsen home after an adventure and meets his mom. Mrs. Olsen's hair is white. Superman's face registers clear shock at seeing that his young friend's mom looks like a grandma, but he covers for himself by saying he wasn't told she was so youthful and lovely. That said, Jimmy's mother mentions that she was only eighteen when Jimmy was born, and she shows no other signs of age, making it unclear if she's a Prematurely Grey-Haired 38 year old, or lying due to Age Insecurity.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_d4d17cca	comment	In Uglies, due to the future setting and medical advances, people living in the cities can live up till their 200s and generally don't start having kids until their 40s or 50s, on top of that, only having a child every twelve years as a means of population control.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: Randy Marsh is in his forties, his father Marvin "Grandpa" Marsh is 102, meaning he'd have been in his sixties when Randy was born.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_decf7b77	comment	Now, Voyager: Charlotte's mother was already in her forties when Charlotte was born, long after her original three children had grown up. Her current age is vague, as her actress Gladys Cooper was 56, but Charlotte is already well over 20; meaning she could be as old as seventy. Due to this, she expects Charlotte to be her old age companion.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_e50423a8	comment	In Harvest Town, the doctor, Lee Wah, and his wife, Pong Ching, are from the same generation as the player character's grandgather; but their sons, Yau and Yeung, are about the same age as the protagonist. At one point, Pong Ching is even described as a mother figure to Mary Morris—who is a middle-aged woman with an adult daughter.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_e936047a	comment	Implied in Hey Arnold!. Arnold's paternal grandparents Phil and Gertie are in their early eighties when Arnold is nine, which means they had to have been middle-aged when they had Arnold's father Miles, as Miles appears to have been in his twenties or thirties when Arnold was born. Though it's possible that Miles is Older Than He Looks and was the one to have kids late.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_ecc8f1de	comment	In The Left Hand of Darkness, Genly hears at one point that the king of Karhide is pregnant. He finds it funny. For the androgynous Gethenians it is also funny, but not because he is pregnant; rather, because he is well above forty. For them, mid-twenties is the age when they usually stop trying to conceive, and forty tends to be the menopause.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_eda6d96a	comment	In Spirited Away, Yubaba looks like an old woman, but has a baby son named Boh. Then again, they're both spirits, Boh can speak in full sentences and is twice his mother's size, so their actual ages are open to question.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_fccc35cc	comment	Crusader Kings II: The baseline fertility of female characters drops gradually from 16 to 45, after which it becomes 0. It is possible for a woman to be impregnated in the last month of being 44, making motherhood at 45 possible, and a few events have a chance of pregnancy occurring regardless of the woman's age (originally most events with a chance of pregnancy tended to ignore the 45 age cap, but most of these were subsequently patched to do so).
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_fda9c8b	comment	In Downton Abbey, both Robert and Cora are stunned when Cora falls pregnant in her late 40s (they already have three adult children). Sadly, she later suffers a miscarriage.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_fe117549	comment	The Devil Wears Prada: Mid-to-late 50's Miranda Prestley (the actress, Meryl Streep, was 57 at the time the movie came out) has twins that appear to be elementary school age (though the actresses were actually 14 at the time). Not impossible, but still noticeable.
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Absurdly Elderly Mother / int_ff4e1b34	comment	In Dharma & Greg, Abby's age is unclear (she does have a daughter who's in her own 20s), but she at one point believes she's entering menopause, implying at least late 40s. She turns out to be pregnant.
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