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It's tough being an orphan. No parents, no home and a large chance you'll be placed in the horrible [[Orphanage of Fear]]. But some fictional orphans get lucky, and go to the '''Orphanage of Love''' instead.
At the Orphanage of Love, there's enough food for all, and it tastes good. The rooms are spacious and well lit, the beds are soft and laundry is done frequently. The staff genuinely care about their charges and competently take care of them until [[Happily Adopted|good foster homes]] can be found for their precious angels. (Because no matter how wonderful the Orphanage of Love is, actual parents are even better.)
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* The Maxwell Church from ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' was very poor, but otherwise it did well and was run by the kind Father Maxwell and his assistant Sister Helen. {{spoiler|Pity it was blown up in the war and the only survivor, Duo, was [[Broken Hero|quite traumatised]].}}
* In ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'': {{spoiler|Ed was raised in one of these.}}
* [[The Hero|Rosette]] and [[Ill Boy|Joshua]] from ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' grew up in an
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|Epsilon]] of ''[[Pluto]]'' runs one of these for human war orphans.
* Tohma from [[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]] was sent to one of these after his hometown was destroyed. He would have gone on to be [[Happily Adopted]] if the plot hadn't come along.
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== Film ==
* St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage is, despite being run by The Penguin, an
** It was mostly because their mentor, Curtis, would be thrown out on the street once the sale of the orphanage was final.
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* ''[[The Cider House Rules]]'' had a loving, if shabby around the edges and low on funding, orphanage-and-abortion-clinic.
* In ''[[Kushiel's Legacy]]'', Imriel grows up in a
* "In an old house in Paris, all covered in vines, lived twelve little girls, in two straight lines". The smallest one was ''[[Madeline]]''. Though it's technically a boarding school, Madeline herself is an orphan and the other kids' parents never really figure into the plot. <!-- If this is wrong and they do indeed, please take the "Repair, Don't Respond" route and remove that line. -->
* Plumfield Estate School, the orphanage/school that Jo and her husband run in Louisa May Alcott's ''[[Little Women|Little Men]]''.
* In ''[[Jane Eyre]]'', Jane gets sent off to Lowood - a boarding school that is basically for orphans and poor children - which goes from an Orphanage of Fear to Orphanage of Love over time.
* The orphanage in which [[Harry Potter|Voldemort]] grew up is more or less described as a pleasant, if gloomy, place to be
** From a certain point of view, Hogwarts itself could be seen as one of these as far as several students are concerned. {{spoiler|Which makes it all the worse in the seventh book when the school is run by Death Eaters.}}
* Jean Webster's book ''[[Daddy Long Legs (novel)|Dear Enemy]]'' is composed of letters written to various people about the goings-on after the heroine takes on the responsibility of an orphanage, which used to border on [[Orphanage of Fear]] until she came along. The "Enemy" of the title is the doctor with whom the heroine cannot get along ([[UST|for most of the book, at least]]). The orphanage suffers from a lack of staff and money, but at least manages to get some community support when {{spoiler|a fire burns the place down and the orphanages get sheltered with various townsfolk for a while}}.
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* The {{spoiler|entire playable party (plus Seifer, minus Rinoa)}} in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' grew up in one. {{spoiler|GF-induced amnesia made everyone except Irvine forget}}.
* Milla Vodello in ''[[Psychonauts]]'' has a backstory where she worked in one of these. Until {{spoiler|the orphans tragically died in a fire, an event that haunts her subconscious to this day}}.
* Jade from ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' operates her Lighthouse Shelter, specifically for war orphans. They run a little low on cash sometimes, but there's warm beds, plenty of food, a [[Big Friendly Dog]], and, you
* This is in {{spoiler|Kou Ichijo's}} backstory in ''[[Persona 4]]''.
* The third world in ''[[Mystic Ark]]'' could essentially be summed up as this ( {{spoiler|Even though they never had parents to begin with and Cecille (the caretaker) created everything from the ground up with the help of the Wisdom Ark}}), though for a good half of the time you spend in that world, Chimera, influencing Cecile, turns it into the opposite, especially during the final part of your visit there when the orphanage is overrun by monsters.
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