'''Basic Trope''': Students in a health, life-science, or home ec class must take care of a simulated baby.
* '''Straight''': AliceAndBob must care for a baby doll that cries at random, in order to learn about parenting and [[ScareEmStraight scare them out of having sex.]]
* '''Exaggerated''':
** For their class project, AliceAndBob must take care of a ''real'' baby, or a live animal.
** AliceAndBob get the "crack baby" -- the one doll that (either due to an electronic malfunction or done deliberately to simulate an actual crack baby) doesn't stop crying no matter what.
* '''Downplayed''':
** In order to teach a grade-school class responsibility, the teacher brings in a class pet, and each student takes said class pet home for a weekend.
** AliceAndBob must do a report on the economic perils of TeenPregnancy.
* '''Justified''':
** The class is a health class trying to scare the students out of having sex, hoping to prevent TeenPregnancy.
** A home-ec or life-science class is trying to teach students [[MaternallyChallenged skills they may one day need as adults]].
* '''Inverted''': BabyDollBaby
* '''Subverted''': AliceAndBob take care of a baby doll as part of a game of "House."
* '''Double Subverted''': It's for a research project.
* '''Parodied''':
** Bob eats the egg, much to the ire of Alice.
** Alice is paired up with Bob (both are white), and Alice is given [[ChocolateBaby a black baby doll]]. Bob is horrified.
** A class of adults has to learn to care for an elderly person like so.
** The entire class gets "crack baby" dolls.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': AliceAndBob don't have to take care of a simulated baby for school.
* '''Enforced''': TruthInTelevision, [[SmallReferencePools at least in the US and Canada]].
* '''Lampshaded''': "These dolls will teach you what it's like to care for a real baby."
* '''Invoked''': The teacher wants to teach responsibility and life skills.
* '''Exploited''': [[{{Geek}} Alice]] rigs up the baby doll that the AlphaBitch has to care for with her JerkJock boyfriend to be the aforementioned "crack baby".
* '''Defied''': The teacher doesn't make the students take care of egg babies, feeling it won't teach them enough about responsibility since the only consequence for accidentally breaking the eggs would be a failed grade.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Alice and Bob have very little trouble taking care of their doll. This has the opposite effect the adults intended, leading them to have sex at an unreasonably young age.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice and Bob were going to have sex anyway, and the project at least convinced them to be very careful about using protection.
* '''Implied''': Bob convinces Alice to wait to have sex until they're older, mumbling something about "stupid doll projects".
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