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* Hinako Aikawa, the lead female from ''[[Bitter Virgin]]'', was sexually abused by her stepfather and got pregnant twice. She had a miscarriage and lost her first baby, then when she gave birth to the second one, she preferred to give the baby boy up for adoption, so the kid would have a chance for a normal life.

* It's strongly hinted that [[Bleach|Ryuuken Ishida and his son Uryu]] are distanced because father didn't want son becoming a Quincy and facing the dangers of such a life. It may also be a reason why Ryuuken hardly ever uses his abilities in front of his son.

 

== Comic Books ==

* This is most of the reason why Catwoman/Selina Kyle gave up her daughter Helena for adoption.

** Cynical readers believe the writers got rid of Helena upon realizing that a baby would be inconvenient for a [[Chaotic Neutral]] thief, and that Selina would have most likely gotten an abortion in the first place.

 

== Film ==

* In a flashback in the movie ''[[Elvira, Mistress of the Dark]]'', her mother is shown dropping the infant Elvira off at a convent to protect her from the convoluted magical politics in their family.

* Possibly Alessa's intention with {{spoiler|her good half}}, Sharon, in the ''[[Silent Hill (film)|Silent Hill]]'' movie, but if it was, {{spoiler|it didn't work}}.

 

== Literature ==

* Subversion: Parent ''figure'' Dumbledore leaves infant [[Harry Potter|Harry]] to the Muggle world so that he has a chance of growing up relatively normal and level-headed. {{spoiler|We later learn another part of the reason Dumbledore had Harry live with the Dursleys was so that he could be protected until his 17th birthday from Voldemort by the charm Lily had unintentionally put on him when she died protecting him. The only way this charm could work was if he called the place when Petunia (Lily's only living blood relative) lived home. This is also the reason that Harry is not allowed to spend entire summer breaks with the Weasleys and must go home each summer.}} It's a miracle it works, as the foster parents he had could have made him a new Voldemort. He does acknowledge his error at the end of Book 5, though.

{{quote|{{spoiler|"...I am sorry I will never get to know him... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand. I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life." }}}}

* [[Dresden Files|The other wizard Harry]] gives up his daughter so that she can have a normal life - or a life at all - in ''Changes''.

* In the book Ruby Red, Gwen's mother lies about her birth date so that no-one will suspect that she inherited the family time-traveling gene; she hopes that Gwen won't inherit it after all and can live as a normal kid. For sixteen years, Gwen's cousin Charlotte (who has the same birthday) is believed to be the heir of the gene, and she was groomed to survive in the past. [[Puberty Superpower|But then Gwen starts time-traveling.]]

 

* On ''[[The X-Files]]'', Scully gives her infant son up for adoption to protect him from the villains hunting him down.

* In the third and final season of ''[[Roswell]]'', Max gives his son, Zan, up for adoption to protect the boy from the life of secrecy and persecution Max has had to live with for the entire series.

* ''[[Angel]]'' had the extremely rare usage of this trope when the child in question wasn't a baby. Angel sold himself to Wolfram and Hart so that his teenaged son Connor could be placed with a new family and new memories, to be safe and happy. It doesn't quite last - the kid's memories are restored a few months later - but while he gets the memories back, he keeps his new, much more stable, personality, so it's still an improvement.

* On ''[[Charmed]]'', this is the explanation for why the Halliwell Sisters grew up not being able to use their powers or knowing about them: Their mother and grandmother "bound their powers" in order to let them live a safe and normal life. This was never quite as much of an option with baby Wyatt, who is an even greater [[Chosen One]] than the Charmed Sisters themselves, but the Halliwell Sisters stil had a tendency to wish that they could give Wyatt a normal life.

* This pretty much sums up why Papa Bartowski left his children on ''[[Chuck]]'' - another rare case of this trope happening when the children in question weren't infants.

* In the second ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'' movie, the heroes work with a police investigator who's trying to live up to the image of his father, a great cop who was killed in the line of duty. At the end of the movie, as a "thank you" for his help, the team takes him back to 1986 so he can see his father at least once. At one point the father's partner asks if he wants his son to become a cop too, to which he responds, "No, I don't want him having to do this for a living."

 

 

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Fallout 3]]'' has the main character's Father, a scientist who wants you to stay in the Vault, while he goes out and about in the Capital Wasteland.

** It backfires. Horribly.

 

== Web Comics ==

* In [[WTF Comics]], {{spoiler|Straha left his daughter, Katis, with her mother so she would never have to deal with being an Ironscale. Katis did,however, eventually display Ironscale abilities when her father (who she had previously believed to be her uncle) was wounded}}.

* In ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]],'' [[The Atoner|Vaarsuvius]] chooses not to contest [[Ambiguous Gender|his/her]] mate's divorce so that their children can have "the normal life of a baker's family." This was shortly after an Ancient Black Dragon tried to kill them and ensnare their souls for eternity.

* ''[[Batman and Sons]]'' [[Played With|plays with]] this—Terry's mother, {{spoiler|Catwoman}}, leaves him with Batman because he'll be safer that way, but of course there's no illusion that he'll have a ''normal'' life.

 

== Western Animation ==