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Author: Illa

Nov 10th 2013 at 12:13:34 PM

Do I understand right that this trope is not only about one "child living all alone", but also about children living together without an adult?

ParentalSubstitute says that "If it's an older sibling who's taken over the parental role, that's PromotionToParent." PromotionToParent says that it is TruthInTelevision.

Does "A child living all alone in a house or apartment" mean the StreetUrchin isn't an example of this trope? What about children on desert islands? (Or the children in TheBoxcarChildren or MaximumRide, which I haven't read?)

The next example isn't about real apartments, either (I think the book's website used to say that subsidized dorms, "extremely safe and well policed for people of all ages and sizes", have private rooms with bathrooms), or about conventional children:
*In Claxton Dong's novel ''Save Our Star'', "Things are different in the future -- kids work and get paid for going to school and get to make their own choices about things. Like where to live", and the narrator says "I know lots of kids who moved into dorms by the time they were ten and have hardly seen their parents since. Well, I know a few kids like that."

In the discussion page for RulesOfOrphanEconomics, kairu says that orphans living alone "seems to happen in anime a lot", and I might have heard the same thing about children living alone in a discussion of Manga/{{Spiral}}. RulesOfOrphanEconomics mentions Bu-Ling and her siblings from TokyoMewMew, and could the title character of BinchouTan and Kyou and Asu in BinbouShimaiMonogatari also be examples? (I'm not too familiar with these works.)