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== Video Games ==
* The main character's daughter in the video game ''[[Silent Hill 1]]'' is left by the side of the road in a manner like this. The protagonist takes her in and soon officially adopts her. Seven years later, he probably ends up wondering whether that was a good idea.
* This is Link's backstory in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]''.
* Leaving a baby on the doorstep of an orphanage lets you sneak inside the opened door to [[Kleptomaniac Hero|loot the place]] in ''[[Leather Goddesses of Phobos (Video Game)|Leather Goddesses of Phobos]]''.
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[
* ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles]]'': Silver and other black, white and silver fox cubs. It helps that the parents are protecting them from a killer ruler who ordered the death of all of the black, silver and white foxes to eliminate the previous ruling caste.
** Thankfully, the fox ruling cast gets better.
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*** It was a bad few months. Parents were driving hundreds of miles from out-of-state to drop off their older children. One woman drove all the way from ''California'' and dropped her teenage son off at the first hospital past the state line mere hours before the age restrictions took effect.
*** Tragically, some people did this with older children as the only way they could get the children adequate mental health care.
*** We can thank (now former) Nebraska state senator, [
* Further [[Truth in Television]]: There was something in the paper recently about how Italian hospitals were reintroducing foundling wheels to deal with these sorts of cases.
** Some German hospitals have them too.
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