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* Mother Karen's home in ''[[Spellbent]]'' and ''Shotgun Sorceress'' by [[Lucy Snyder]] is one of these. Mother Karen herself rivals [[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood|Fred Rogers]] in the "Friend to all children" category and is unfailingly kind even when monumentally stressed out. What she can't do, she relies on the teenage orphans (raised under her sterling example, of course) to do.
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Chaos]]'', the boarding school stradles the line between this and [[Orphanage of Fear]]. On the one hand, they are treated affectionately and given an excellent education. On the other hand, the teachers are under orders to kill them if they start remembering things.
* Some of ''[[Labyrinths of Echo]]'' prequels feature Juffin's compatriot and old friend Zoggi - formerly a cutpurse who as his day job ran sort-of-daycare, apparently just because he felt like being busy and taking care of someone <ref>we know nothing about his parents, but given that they named the kid after ''giant cactus that can kill with thoughts'', should've been really weird people</ref>. Right before the civil war gradually heated up - more and more people were caught in crossfire, more and more orphans were left in the neighbourhood, so he just kept them around and since it was a bad time to pick pockets, Juffin gave him some money (he already had more than he could possibly spend in the next century or so). Eventually, the civil war ended, all orphans were given free place at the King's High School, and Zoggi left the capitol to start something new, so Juffin (with a little magical persuasion) gave him money to open a tavern. In which Zoggi introduced locals to the idea of a child room. It helped that Zoggi is half-[[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Arvarokh]], that is magically weak, but magic-resistant and quite physically imposing, so there never was a shortage of nice young ladies willing to work with him and take a shift at the counter, and while he wasn't a great chef, feeding a crowd of kids gave him practice, and his cooking didn't suffer from [[Ban on Magic]]. After the next big mess, some of the locals sponsored an orphanage run by him.
== Tabletop Games ==
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