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== [[Literature]] ==

* Dorothy Gale of ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' is the foster child of determined homesteaders in the original book.

* Marty in Janette Oke's ''Love Comes Softly'' series starts off pregnant with one kid, and gets married to Clark partly because he wants her to look after his four-year-old, Missie. Over the course of the next few books, Marty has several children, and somewhere along the line she ends up taking in two girls from a widower who's leaving town. And then just as her kids start having kids, Marty ends up having ''another'' girl (she's embarrassed to have a baby who'll be younger than the baby's nieces and nephews, but the kids think it's great). That's one big clan she's got going for her.

* The ''Dear America'' series has multiple examples in books such as ''Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie'' and ''West to a Land of Plenty''.

* ''[[American Girl]]'' has the Swedish immigrant families in the Kirsten books.

* Karl Oskar and Kristina's children in ''[[The Emigrants]]''.

* The book "Shane" introduces Robert Macpherson Starrett; "Too much name for a boy. I make it Bob." The story is told as his grown-up recollections of the events of his childhood.