Every soap is guilty of SORASing their children. What is SORAS, you may ask? SORAS stands for Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndome. Lets determine how old the children really should be and then sit back and laugh as we look at how old they are on the show right now.

B&B's real birth years:

Marc Maclaine - 1989 (Lauren Koslow was pregnant in real life)

Rick Forrester - 1990 (Katherine Kelly Lang was pregnant in real life)

CJ Garrison - 1991

Bridget Forrester - 1992 (Katherine Kelly Lang was pregnant in real life)

Mary Warwick - 1997

Thomas Forrester - 1998 (Hunter Tylo was pregnant in real life)

Phoebe and Stephanie Forrester - 1999

Hope Logan - 2002

RJ Forrester - 2003

Alexandria Forrester - 2003 (Schae Harrison was pregnant in real life)

I've really come to appreciate the Brit soaps relative lack of SORAS. I think the rapid aging here, the extreme cases at least, shows a lack of creativity.

I've really come to appreciate the Brit soaps relative lack of SORAS. I think the rapid aging here, the extreme cases at least, shows a lack of creativity.

I totally agree. It is very much a lack of creativity. I think the British soaps have so much on the American soaps. I love that they are willing to give older characters stories, and even have normal looking folks on the show. That is what soaps used to be about here.

Y&R's real birth years:

Phillip Chancellor III - 1976

Heather Williams - 1980

Victoria Newman - 1982 (Melody Thomas Scott was pregnant in real life)

Phillip Chancellor IV - January 1988

Nicholas Newman - December 1988 (Melody Thomas Scott was pregnant in real life; Nicholas is probably the most extreme SORAS on Y&R)

Kate Valentine - July 1990

Scotty Grainger - March 1991 (Tracey Bregman was pregnant in real life)

Colleen Carlton - February 1992

Nate Hastings - November 1992

Billy Abbott - July 1993

Daniel Romalotti - summer 1994 (his birth wasn't shown on-screen)

Lily Winters - March 1995

Victor Newman Jr. - March 1995

Noah Newman - February 1997

Kyle Abbott - November 2000

Abby Carlton - November 2000

Ricardo Williams - June 2002

Fenmore Baldwin - October 2006

Summer Newman - November 2006

Keemo - mid 70's.

Chuckie - 74.

Brooks - 79.

Jennifer - 80.

Mackenzie - 83.

Nina's first son - 86.

Nick - 88/89.

Kyle - 01.

Joshua - 05.

Y&R's real birth years:

Phillip Chancellor III - 1976...

Phillip Chancellor IV - January 1988

You know what's really crazy is that not only was PC IV born when PC III was twelve, he was never aged beyond about the age of about 8. Everyone else was SORAS while he was kept a little boy. I could be wrong, but I believe he was still in grade school when Nick got Sharon pregnant.

Everyone else was SORAS while he was kept a little boy.

No he wasn't. He was SORAS'ed too.

What's even more stupid is AMC SORAS'd Ethan after his death, his tombstone says he was born in 1981, really? Zach was 15 in '81, it's already been established that Zach was born in '66(same year as TK) and Michael was born in '69 So Ethan shouldn't have been born till at least 1984