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== Film ==
 
* The Bride from ''[[Kill Bill]]'' had a thing about not killing people in front of their children. Her opponent Vernita Green orders her daughter Nikki upstairs. When Vernita makes her attempt to bushwhack the Bride, she puts a knife into her at range -- andrange—and turns to see that Nikki has seen the whole thing.
{{quote| '''The Bride:''' It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that, I'm sorry. But take my word for it; your mother had it coming. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting.}}
* In ''[[Terminator]] 2'', Sarah Connor is about to kill Dyson to prevent him from developing Skynet, but his son throws himself in the way, screaming, "Don't hurt my daddy!" over and over again. In that moment, Sarah realizes [[He Who Fights Monsters|what she was about to do]] and has [[Heroic BSOD|a bit of a breakdown]], giving her son and [[Robot Buddy|the T-800]] time to catch up to her.
* In the original ''[[Stargate (film)|Stargate]]'' movie, when presented before Ra, Jack manages to wrestle a weapon from the guards, turns to shoot Ra... but Ra's entourage of children calmly step in front of him, and he can't bring himself to shoot through them.
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* Done without the child's presence needed in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]''. Celesto, having [[Jumped Off the Slippery Slope]], slaughters a [[Jerkass]] athlete and turns to kill the stripper he was accosting... only to get a vision of her telling her daughter good night.
{{quote| '''Celesto:''' Go home, hug your daughter tight, and thank her for that good-luck pinch. ''She just saved your life.''}}
 
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* Baboons, while trying to avoid a fight will hide among infants, as most Baboons won't fight in front of them.
** It's a social survival tactic to get in good with mothers and provide babysitting service for them. If you're carrying an infant, you're largely immune to attacks from other males. If a male does disregard an infant and attack the babysitter, the females will swarm him in defense of the infant.
* Recently, there was a news article about a seven-year-old girl and her mother who were attacked by the mom's ex-boyfriend. When he attempted to kill the mother, THE GIRL TOOK SEVERAL BULLETS! [https://web.archive.org/web/20090831041047/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331548,00.html Amazingly she lived], and the boyfriend will probably get life.
* I seem to remember a story that one of Saddam Hussein's tactics was to place his command centres on the top floors of schools to discourage attacks on the commanders. (I could be wrong about this, so please correct me if I am.)