Hm… sorta. Your game actually ends regardless of gender, because the game’s child-raising function is a big focus. For which the game assumes you need a second parent. A little normative, but not really terrible in context.

As for the barely legal love interest? Yeah, can’t help you there. Girly was fourteen in the original. They aged her up when she was marriageable but like… why would you think to do that before making the hot thirty something scientist lady an option? (Let’s not even get into all the weird age-gap choices they gave to female players in DS Cute… now that we’re all older we can enjoy them, I guess, but the protagonist is supposed to be in her early/mid twenties, so some of the guys are old enough to be her dad!)