Sink-or-Swim Fatherhood: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Bunny Drop]]'', Daikichi, despite being a bachelor, adopts his grandfather's illegitimate 6-year old daughter (yes, that makes her his aunt), when no one else in his family would take on the responsibility. It could be a subversion in that he has to ask for advice and goes through a lot of crap at work trying to make time to be able to pick her up from preschool, but all in all he does a really good job.

* ''[[Otaku no Musume San]]'' is about an otaku who gets his formerly unknown daughter dumped on him by his high school sweetheart. {{spoiler|Furthermore, the climax of the story is what happens when the mother comes back and intends to take the daughter back.}}

** Yes, there doesn't have to be a blood relationship as long as [[Promotion to Parent]] takes place.

** Later on, the gang does discover {{spoiler|Eve's creator and biological genitor (that is, the scientist who cloned Eve from herself)}}; both feel a sort of filial connection and there's talk about Eve staying with her {{spoiler|but they commonly decide not to}}.

* In ''[[Big Daddy]]'' this happens to the main character's roommate but the roommate is out of town when the kid arrives so the main character tells child services he's the kid's father. Eventually child services finds out the main character was lying {{spoiler|and a trial ensues where the child's real dad saves the day.}}

* ''[[Three Men And A Baby]]'' (and it's French [[Foreign Remake|original version]], ''Trois Hommes et un Couffin'').

* ''[[Old Dogs]]'': Robin Williams' character discovers that his short marriage resulted in twins when his ex-wife dumps them on his doorstep and asks to take care of them while she faces jail time for an environmental protest.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' novel ''Changes'', {{spoiler|Harry}} learns that he has a daughter with {{spoiler|his ex-girlfriend Susan}}, who has been kidnapped by {{spoiler|vampires}} and needs to be rescued. While not exactly an exact example of this, he does {{spoiler|remain Maggie's only parent after Susan's death}} at the end of the novel.

* The ''[[Suvi Kinos]]'' series begins with the titular character being orphaned in a car accident. She ends up in the care of her uncles. Her five hulking, academical doctor uncles. They are varying mixes of caveman and nerd, so hilarity ensues. For example, when little Suvi cries to not be pacified by default maintenance, they look up a childcare book, and end up desperate because there's no index entry for "vocal alarm". The entire first book, dealing with Suvi's years 0 to 6, is a big zigzagging of this trope.

* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' somehow managed to reverse this trope an have a sink or swim mother.

* ''[[My Two Dads]]'' is made from this. Woman dies, wills that the father of her daughter should raise her - but it could be one of two guys (it started before genetic testing was mainstream, though this was addressed in a later episode). So they both raise her. Neither one knew of the child until the death of the mother.

 

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