My Biological Clock Is Ticking/Playing With

• Basic Trope: A woman realizes she's not getting any younger, and feels that she needs to get married and have a baby ASAP.
• Played Straight: Alice reaches her 35th birthday, and starts to worry about her single status and the fact that she has no children.
• Exaggerated: Alice is doing this even though she's still in college.
  • Alice is Driven to Madness over this issue and becomes the local Crazy Cat Lady.
• Justified: Alice is living in a world where it's Mate or Die
  • Unfortunately, there is a limited window of time in which a woman can have biological children, and Alice is reaching the tail end of that time period.
• Inverted: Alice does not want any children.
• Gender Inverted: Bob is worried about the fact that he has no wife or kids.
• Subverted: Alice is single and sans-children at 35, but doesn't seem to spend a lot of time worrying about it.
  • Alice already has children.
• Double Subverted: But she has six online dating service accounts, all seeking a man who is eager to settle down and raise a family.
  • But she wants another child, or if her kids are old enough, she wants grandchildren.
    • Or, her kids are all adopted, and she wants to have a biological child or children.
• Deconstructed: Alice is so obsessed with marriage and babies that it makes her look desperate (which does tend to put men off).
• Reconstructed: Alice decides she can lead a fulfilling life even without a husband and 2.4 children by her side, and pursues other goals. If the marriage and kids happen, great. If not, Alice still has a great life.
• Parodied: Alice asks a guy about "where this is going" etc. on the first date.
• Lampshaded:
• Averted: Alice doesn't think this way.
  • Alice already has children, and does not want to have any more.
• Enforced: Most Writers Are Male and think all women think this way.
  • Babies Make Everything Better, Mandatory Motherhood,
• Invoked: Alice is having a mid-life crisis.
• Defied: Alice decides to focus on other goals.
• Discussed:
• Conversed: "Now that I'm 30, maybe we should start thinking about having kids? I won't be young forever!"
• Played For Laughs: Alice will take any man - literally, any man - just so she can have kids. She even comes up with elaborate schemes to trick guys into getting her pregnant.
• Played For Drama: Alice is an intelligent and powerful businesswoman, and yet all her parents care about is getting grandchildren, and favor her less-accomplished sister Betty simply because of her many kids. Alice feels pressure to get married and pregnant simply to make her parents happy.

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