Welcome to the Tropes Adoption Agency. If you do not have an index, get yourself one here.
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!!Tropes:
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Related:
+ OrphanedIndex
+ ParentalIssues
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* AbandonedPetInABox: A ([[CuteKitten usually]] [[PreciousPuppy young and adorable]]) cat or dog found in a cardboard box, who usually gets adopted by the hero.
* AdoptingTheAbused: A character who's been abused in the past ends up in a healthy relationship.
* AdoptAServant: Someone adopts a child to work for them.
* AdoptTheFood: Turning a potential meal into a child or pet.
* AdoptedIntoRoyalty: Someone gets adopted into a royal family.
* AdoptedToTheHouse: Taking in a homeless acquaintance until they can find a permanent home.
* AdoptionAngst: A character finds out they are adopted and doesn't take it well.
* AdoptionConflict: A fight breaks out between a character's biological and adoptive parents over who's really the character's family.
* AdoptionDiss: An insult that has to do with being adopted.
* AdoptionIsNotAnOption: A couple wants a child but never considers adopting one, even if they hypothetically could.
* AdoptiveNameChange: Someone gets their name changed upon being adopted.
* AdoptivePeerParent: Someone adopts a son or daughter who's too old to be their biological child.
* AdultAdoptee: Someone is adopted into a family despite being legally (almost) an adult.
* AnachronisticOrphanage: A traditional orphanage in a setting where there logically shouldn't be one.
* ArtificialFamilyMember: Somebody who was made instead of born and sees their creator as family.
* BabyAsPayment: A child is used as payment for something and (usually) raised by the adult that paid for them.
* ChangelingTale: Fairies take a human child and replace it with one of their own.
* ChildrenRaiseYou: Someone (usually an inexperienced parent) is forced to adopt a kid, who teaches them how to be a better person.
* CircusBrat: Often (but not always) an orphan or runaway who grows up with a circus or carnival.
* CriminalFoundFamily: A group of criminals adopts each other.
* DoorstopBaby: Someone (usually the mom, although sometimes the dad or another person) leaves a baby on someone else's doorstep, usually leading to the person whose doorstep it is adopting the baby.
* EvilOrphan: A couple adopts an orphan (normally a young girl but sometimes a young boy) who turns out to be evil.
* FamilyOfChoice: A group of friends sees themselves as a family.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Someone claims to be a different sort of relative (e.g., a parent pretends to be a sister, a grandparent pretends to be a parent, etc.)
* AFatherToHisMen: A military leader acts as a parent to his (or her) inferiors.
* FosterKid: A child who's basically temporarily adopted.
* GoodStepmother: A stepmother who is benevolent and loving towards her stepchild(ren); she may end up formally or informally adopting the stepchild(ren).
* HappilyAdopted: A character is perfectly happy with being adopted.
* HeartwarmingOrphan: An orphan child who normally ends up being adopted and is a good character who makes the audience emotional.
* HeritageFaceTurn: Someone has been fighting against a group, but then they find out that they were adopted, and their biological parents were part of that group (or a variation) so they stop fighting against that group.
* HonoraryUncle: Someone's parents' non-related friends call themselves the kids' uncles or aunts.
* {{Imprinting}}: A baby animal forms a bond with a person, another animal, or even an object, normally believing him/her/it to be a parent.
* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Someone, usually a child, wants to adopt a cute animal or kid.
* InterracialAdoptionStruggles: Somebody adopts a child who's a different race or ethnicity, which subsequently causes problems.
* InterspeciesAdoption: Somebody adopts a child who's a different species.
* KillTheParentRaiseTheChild: A character looks after the child of someone they killed.
* LikeASonToMe: A character describes a younger friend as being like their son or daughter.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Two best friends of the opposite genders who see each other as siblings and are occasionally [[MistakenForRomance falsely thought to be dating.]]
* MuggleFosterParents: A SuperHero raised by adoptive parents without powers.
* {{Nephewism}}: A child is brought up by their aunt or uncle.
* NewParentNomenclatureProblem: Someone who was adopted or similar but whose birth parents are still alive feels unsure about calling the person "mom" or "dad".
* NotBloodNotFamily: An adopted character is denounced as not being "real family."
* ObliviousAdoption: Someone doesn't know they're adopted.
* OrcRaisedByElves: Someone from a villainous group is adopted by heroes.
* ParentalSubstitute: An adult and a child are good friends and the adult sort of acts as the child's parent.
* PetBabyWildAnimal: A child tries to keep a baby wild animal as a pet and either the pet dies, the pet must be set free, or the pet stays as a pet.
* PlatonicCoParenting: A child is raised by two or more people who are not romantically involved, often having been adopted (officially or unofficially) by at least one of them.
* PromotionToParent: The eldest sibling acts like the younger siblings' parent.
* RaisedByGrandparents: A child's grandparents raise them.
* RaisedByHumans: A human adopts an animal as their child rather than pet.
* RaisedByNatives: An orphan child is adopted by people from a world different from the one the orphan is from.
* RaisedByOrcs: A child is raised by a species that's mostly or [[AlwaysChaoticEvil always]] evil.
* RaisedByRival: A child is raised by the rival or enemy of their parent.
* RaisedByRobots: A {{robot}} raises a non-robot child.
* RaisedByTheCommunity: An entire community of people not related to a child raise the child.
* RaisedByTheSupernatural: A supernatural being raises a non-supernatural child.
* RaisedByWolves: Animals raise a human kid.
* RedHeadedStepchild: A redhead who's teased for being ginger (not necessarily related to adoption but the name comes from adopted redheads).
* ReplacementGoldfish: A character tries to replace their dead acquaintance (often their child by adopting another one).
* ResentfulGuardian: A character is not happy about their new role of having to guard another character.
* SecretProjectRefugeeFamily: A group of people who've been experimented on or created in a lab adopt each other as a family.
* SinkOrSwimFatherhood: A man is expected to raise his child but he's inexperienced.
* TeamDad: A bossy leader (or almost-leader) of a group, who's usually a man.
* TeamMom: Somebody, usually a woman, who is the friendly leader of a RagtagBunchOfMisfits.
* WickedStepmother: A stepmother who's mean to her stepchildren.
* WildChild: A child who grew up feral.
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