Basic Trope: A child somehow only has one biological parent.
- Straight: Alice creates a child, Charlie, with no other parent.
- Exaggerated: Alice can create dozens of children without any other parents.
- Downplayed: Alice is the main creator of Charlie — however, Bob has a small part in actually bringing him to life.
- Justified:
- Charlie is a clone of Alice.
- Alice is of a species that reproduces through parthenogenesis or another form of asexual reproduction.
- Charlie is a robot or other artificial creation, and Alice is a Mad Scientist or other inventor.
- Alice is a deity, or otherwise has the power to create life.
- Inverted: Extra Parent Conception
- Subverted: ???
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- Averted: Charlie has two biological parents, Alice and Bob.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Alice wants a child, but can't have one of her own for any variety of reasons. She decides to clone herself, or otherwise create an artificial child.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Drama: Alice tries to make Charlie exactly like her, and is upset when Charlie doesn't live up to those expectations.
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