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== Anime and Manga ==
* A heartbreaking example in ''[[
* Kanemaki Jisai with Kojiro in ''[[Vagabond]]'', partly.
* This is the central premise of ''[[
* In the Sahara Mizu manga ''[[My Girl]]'', when the protagonist's high school girlfriend dies suddenly, he learns that the real reason she cut off contact with him years ago was to hide the fact that she was pregnant with his child. Said child is now five years old and, of course, has to come live with her father -- who is a shy pushover with no idea how to be a parent.
* In ''[[Bunny Drop]]'', 30-year-old bachelor Daikichi Kawachi takes in six-year-old Rin (who happens to be his orphaned aunt, but never mind). From time to time as he learns about the mechanics of parenthood, he wonders just [[Lampshaded|who is raising who]].
* Played with in ''[[Witchblade (
* The premise of the anime ''[[Daa! Daa! Daa!]]!'' is two teenagers who barely know each other, who have to take care of a small baby they find. Of course, the baby is also an alien, but still...
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'' [[Audio Adaptation|second sound stage]], Fate worries that her adoptive children, Erio and Caro, by insisting that they are fine at the moment, are hiding any true problems that they may have (while they don't want to worry her and wish to become a bit more independent). By the end, when they come to an understanding, Fate reflects on Lindy's advice to let your adoptive children raise you, and thinks that was the case when she was being raised by her and Precia (before the latter went insane).
* In ''[[Sakende Yaruze]]'', Shino goes through this process when the 17 year old son he didn't know he had shows up on his doorstep. He moves past his first love (his son's now-deceased mother), gains some emotional maturity, and ends up with a [[Love Interest]] as well. However, unlike the happy family unit scenario mentioned above, his new relationship is what causes his son to then leave him and go back to living with his strict grandmother instead.
* In ''[[Detective Conan]]'', [[The Alcoholic]] [[Private Defective]] Kogoro Mouri was clearly looked after by his 17-year-old daughter Ran.
* [[Downplayed Trope|Downplayed]] in ''[[
* In ''[[Papa no Iukoto o Kikinasai
* Rather the point of "[[
* In ''[[
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* The German film ''[[Mostly Martha]]'' and its American remake, ''[[No Reservations]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Training Dad]]''
* ''[[Big Daddy]]'' with [[Adam Sandler]], although that one had a bit of a twist; ''[[Bedtime Stories]]'' might be a little closer to the heart of this trope.
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* ''[[Three Men And A Baby]]'' is a variant where no parental death is involved, just a "runaway mother" approach.
* The [[Ur Example]]: ''[[Baby Boom]]''. The baby was left behind by a ''very'' distant, European relative that the protagonist hardly even remembered.
* ''[[Jack And Sarah]]'', starring [[Richard E. Grant]]. Which contains possibly one of the cutest things ever committed to film, in which Grant (stuck with the baby after his wife suffers [[Death
** The sock-on-head bit is copied by Clive Owen in ''[[Shoot'Em Up]]''. In his case, the newborn belongs to a woman he's never met before, who suffered Death After Childbirth By Shooting, and he's only looking after it because the [[Big Bad]] wants to [[Moral Event Horizon|shoot the baby too]]. It's that sort of movie.
* ''[[The Game Plan]]''.
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== Literature ==
* ''[[About a Boy]]'', both the book and the film (though they do lack the "death" aspect of this trope, the rest fits.)
* In the last ''[[
* In ''[[Discworld]],'' this seems to have happened to ''[[The Grim Reaper|Death]],'' who adopted his daughter, Ysabell, after reaping the souls of her deceased parents. This first-hand interaction with a mortal child (and later Ysabell's daughter, Susan) is presumably a part of why he's developed such a fondness (and attempt to imitate) humanity.
* In [[
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* Happens to Shane in season 4 of ''[[The L Word]]''. {{spoiler|Her deadbeat father's run off with another woman, and her junkie stepmother blames Shane and ditches Shane's baby brother on Shane's doorstep. Shane reluctantly takes responsibility, and having to be a stable parent for him is doing her a power of good and forcing her to give up her bad habits, and they're really bonding and becoming close -- and then her father shows up and takes him back. * sniff* }}
* Also part of the premise of ''[[The Bernie Mac Show]]''.
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'': "The Begotten", where Odo takes care of an infant changeling. {{spoiler|It dies, but in its short time restores his shapeshifting abilities and reconciles him with ''his'' father figure}}.
* An older form of this with Rory pretty much guiding the kitchen and relationship-clumsy Lorelai Gilmore through life in the first four seasons on ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' before [[Executive Meddling]] and Flanderization kicked in to turn Rory into every other TV teen.
* Daniel seems to be going this way in ''[[Doctors]]''
* The premise of [[Raising Hope]]. As an added bonus, not only does the main character grow as a result as having to look after the tituler Hope, but ''his'' parents do too.
* ''[[
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