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In a less permanent variation, monasteries are also a popular choice for wealthy families to place their daughters in until they marry: a monastery means strict upbringing, education, and more or less guaranteed virginity. Bonus points for not needing to provide the kid with class-relevant and expensive dresses while she is kept there.
[[Sub-Trope]] of [[The Exile]], [[Reassigned to Antarctica]], and [[Kicked Upstairs]] (in the sense that the failed courtier of earthly monarchs is now serving the [[God|Lord of Heaven]]). Related to [[Man in
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* Subverted in [[The Religion]].
* Eventually happens to Maria Clara on ''[[Noli Me Tangere]]''.
* Inversion in [[Honor Harrington|Crown of Slaves]]. The police chief of the new Republic of Haven sends his wife [[Undercover As Lovers]] with Victor Cachet assuming another wayward wife would be ignored in the event of a coup. As it happens Cachet is trustworthy for that assignment; in fact despite being an agnostic he is almost prissy enough to be a monk.
* A rather long subplot in ''[[
* In the original Hans Christian Anderson version of ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', the prince falls in love with a young woman from the local nunnery who finds him shortly after the mermaid pulls him from the water. Resigned to never being with her, the prince considers marrying the mermaid, when it is revealed the young woman was never a nun, but a princess being educated there. They marry and live happily ever after. The mermaid...[[Downer Ending|not so much]].
* In ''[[Sharpe]]'s Honour'', la Marquesa de Casares el Grande gets confined in a convent so she can't contradict the faked evidence that's supposed to convict Sharpe for murder.
* This is common as both a threat and an actual practice in the [[Videssos]] books. Not surprising as the Empire of Videssos is the Byzantine Empire with magic.
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* In the ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' two-parter "Accidents Will Happen," Manny (a Filipino-American) is terrified of telling her parents about her pregnancy, because she doesn't want to end up like her cousin back in the Philippines who got sent to a convent.
* In ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', Aunt Lily sends Olive to a nunnery to protect the secret she accidentally blabbed, although that lasts for a very short time. And Aunt Lily knew about the nunnery because she was sent there herself as a youth to [[My Secret Pregnancy|hide a pregnancy]].
* The ''[[Cadfael (TV series)|Cadfael]]'' series uses this at least once or twice.
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== Video Games ==
* In the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' series, Asari with the Ardat-Yakshi genetic defect are given a choice between this trope and execution. That's because Ardat-Yakshi are effectively [[Horny Devils|succubi]] and their condition causes them to [[Death
* This can happen in ''[[Crusader Kings]]''. It's treated just like death.
* ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'': Princess Ovelia spent her childhood being brought up in a monastery before the [[Succession Crisis|plot]] started. {{spoiler|Or at least, that's the "official" story. The truth is, the real princess died at a very young age, so the royal family picked an orphan around the same age to pass off as the princess.}}
* In ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'', Alistair, a bastard son of {{spoiler|King Maric}}, was sent away to a monastery at age 10 for safekeeping and joined [[The Order]] of Templars later.
** Sebastian, third prince of Starkhaven in ''[[
== Real Life ==
* Subversion: [[
* Was popular in Russia during multiple coups, mostly as a way to dispose queens.
* A common way for a Byzantine emperor who could see the end coming to depart [[Eye Scream|with his eyes intact]] was to abdicate and join a monastery, knowing that the monastery is where he would end up anyway.
* The Carolingian Pepin the Short, upon seizing the throne of the Frankish Empire, promptly sent his Merovingian predecessor Childeric III and his son Theuderic to a monastery, to get rid of any potential rival claimants. The fact that the supposedly less-civilized Franks used this
* The brother of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" (who would have been the heir to the Jacobite claim) monasticised himself as an official declaration that he [[Know When to Fold'Em|knew when to fold em]].
* There are multiple subversions from Japanese history (most notably in the years 1086 to 1185) where emperors abdicated to join a (Buddhist) monastery. This was a political machination generally intended to keep power for ''themselves'', acting behind the scenes.
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