# Youngest Parents Poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2005, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-parents-poll/284004 "2005-01-10T05:57:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-parents-poll/284004/1 "2005-01-10T05:57:16Z")
A takeoff of the [Oldest Father Poll](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=295063&highlight=David+Simmons). What Doper has the youngest parents? Please note, not looking for the youngest Doper to become a parent, but the Doper whose parents were born most recently. Maybe sometime in the seventies? I could see 15-year-old Doper (1990) who’s mother or father was 15 (1975) at the time of their birth. As for me, I got nuthin’. My mom was born in 1952, my father in the 1930s. Surely someone can beat that. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-parents-poll/284004/2 "2005-01-10T05:58:57Z")
My mom was born in 1954. My dad was born in 1955. He’s eleven months younger than she is. ---
**Author:** ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-parents-poll/284004/3 "2005-01-10T17:22:00Z")
My parents were born in 1951. I was born in 1985. I really have nothing to do with this poll, but I felt like saying it. Oh, and when I was in like 5th grade, I found it very strange that everyone else’s parents were a decade or more younger than mine. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-parents-poll/284004/4 "2005-01-10T17:29:41Z")
Not exactly what you’re looking for, but I turned 30 about 3 months ago, and my father turns 48 day after tomorrow. My parents were born in 57 (dad) & 55 (mom) ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-parents-poll/284004/5 "2005-01-10T20:28:26Z")
I win so far! My mom was born in 57, my dad in 61. (I was born in 86.) ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-parents-poll/284004/6 "2005-01-10T21:47:24Z")
My mom was born in 1958 and my dad in 1959. **ErinPuff** ’s father is younger than mine but I have the youngest mom so far! (Which I’m expecting to last for about 10 more seconds … ) ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-parents-poll/284004/7 "2005-01-10T23:29:45Z")
And Krys takes the lead! My parents were born in 1965. I was born in 1984. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-parents-poll/284004/8 "2005-01-11T05:48:07Z")
My daughter’s parents were born in 1966 and 1970. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-parents-poll/284004/9 "2005-01-15T21:21:55Z")
So far our winner is 1965. Those are some young parents you have there, **Krys92gp**! I know there are at least a couple of 13-year-old Dopers who may have parents that can beat that, though. Unless they’re like me, a late-in-life baby. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-parents-poll/284004/10 "2005-01-15T21:27:11Z")
> [@gfloyd](#): > > Oh, and when I was in like 5th grade, I found it very strange that everyone else’s parents were a decade or more younger than mine. [slight hijack] I was born in 1965, and my mum 1929, and dad in 1923 – more than one classmate - and teacher - thought my parents were my grandparents… [/sh] ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-parents-poll/284004/11 "2005-01-16T01:34:21Z")
> [@Ms Boods](#): > > [slight hijack] > I was born in 1965, and my mum 1929, and dad in 1923 – more than one classmate - and teacher - thought my parents were my grandparents… > [/sh] I was born later and my parents have only slightly later birthdates. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youngest-parents-poll/284004/12 "2005-01-17T17:51:25Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I was born later and my parents have only slightly later birthdates. My sister is 15 years older than I, and looks a bit older than her age, and it used to burn her up when I was 10 or 11, and she was babyminding me and my nephew, and people commented on what nice kids she had. 😃