History Main / OrphanageOfLove

* From ''[[VideoGame/{{Yakuza}} Yakuza 3]]'' onwards, Kazuma runs one in Okinawa. His kids have a loving father figure who feeds them, gives them shelter, educates them and overall is one cool dad... and if someone messes with them, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown he'll savagely beat them til they puke their sternum out]].
** Kazuma himself, along with Nishiki and Yumi, among others, were raised in Sunflower Orphanage, which seems to be regarded fondly by all of them. That it was evidently a caring environment is especially surprising considering [[spoiler: it was founded/run by a yakuza hitman to house the children he orphaned in the course of his business.]]

* ''Film/XMen'': Considering how they live in a world where they're hated or feared, many mutant kids are thrown out or run away from home once they develop their powers. As such, Professor X turned his home into a school and safe haven for mutant kids and teens (like Rogue), though he also willingly takes in and helps any adult mutants who come along (such as Logan). His first students are loyal enough to him that they remain at the school and act as teachers.

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* Court Seim from ''VideoGame/WildARMs1'' is a village full of orphans who are clearly loved and cared for, while doing their best to keep things running. [[spoiler: It turns out to be the real reason Jane is so focused on getting as much money as possible. She's the orphanage's breadwinner and she sticks with the job because the orphans see her as a CoolBigSis.]]

* ''Film/BoysTown'' is [[RomanAClef fictionalized account of the founding]]] of a real OrphanageOfLove aimed specifically at troubled youths, though it also deals with boys who aren't orphans as well.

* ''Film/BoysTown'' is about the founding of an OrphanageOfLove aimed specifically at troubled youths, though it deals with boys who aren't orphans as well.

* The orphanage in ''Adopt-A-Ghost'' certainly applies, to the point at which the children love the matron and other orphans so much that they try to ''avoid'' being adopted if possible.

* The Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum in ''Mary Cary, Frequently Martha'' would qualify, especially after the arrival of Miss Katherine, who comes to live there and work as a nurse without a salary and makes a lot of changes: better food, nicer Christmases, and improvements via some donations s from her rich brother.

* Natalie Savage Carlson's twenty ''Orphelines'' lived happily in a small private orphanage run by Mme. Flattot and her assistant Genevieve. There were several books about these little girls, who regarded themselves as a family and didn't want to be adopted.

* ''Which Witch?'', [[spoiler:at the end when the old matron-turned spider is replaced by a sweeter woman]].

* In the ''Literature/GirlsOfTheGoodDayOrphanage'' series, the eponymous orphanage is one of these. They do have to deal with a stingy financial manager who tut-tuts at what he sees as "frivolities" (things like good food and toys), but the women who are actually in charge of caring for the girls are basically surrogate parents to them. In one book where the two women both have to be away for a while, the woman they bring in as a substitute caregiver is equally kind and loving, notably helping one girl who has low self-esteem realize that YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre by making a point of recognizing the things she does right (for example, when the girl makes some mistakes in a spelling test, the woman praises her for how many she got right rather than criticize her for the ones she got wrong).

** So is the foster home in the remake.

* Hatoful House, in the backstory of ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', was a bit short on money. There were thirteen [[UpliftedAnimal birds]] and a caretaker there, and medicine cost much more than food. Older orphans would contribute by working and bringing their salaries back. Still, the ill boy]] worried about being a burden aside, they were happy. [[spoiler: Everyone there was a war orphan, their parents killed by humans. It's human terrorists who came and killed most of them.]]

* ''Anime/DeathNote'': Whether Wammy's House is this or an OrphanageOfFear zigzags depending on which way your Fanon leans. Whichever way, the place cranks out {{Tyke Bomb}}s like it's manufacturing them... While Mello, Near, and L seem to have been content with the place, others (like A and Beyond) are not so fortunate. It seems to depend on what level of TykeBomb you are.

* Despite how much of a CrapsackWorld the story holds to, ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' consistently shows the various temples dedicated to gods that take in orphans to be happy and loving places, with the ones raised there going on to be happy and well-adjusted people, with them only having bad experiences once they leave to experience the world. Priestess maintains great relationships with her fellow Earth Mother clergy, and while Chosen Heroine's rambunctious personality meant the God of Trade's priestesses had to be a bit stern in raising her, she still has fond memories of her childhood.

* The orphanage [[LightNovel/SagaOfTanyaTheEvil Tanya von Degurechaff]] was raised in is identified as this in ''Fanfic/AYoungWomansPoliticalRecord'' and ''Fanfic/AYoungGirlsDelinquencyRecord''. In the former, despite starting out as a sociopath, Tanya acknowledges the nuns were always devoted to the children and makes it a point to either send gifts or drop by herself when she has the time; in the latter, an investigation is briefly launched into their finances after the immense success of the film ''Arene'', which depicts the brutal conditions of the orphanage, until the nuns produce the financial records and show how little money they had to work with and that everyone helped in every way they could.

* [[spoiler: Hanako Ikezawa]] from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' lived there until she came to Yamaku. There's a subversion, though: [[spoiler: while the staff treated Hanako kindly, she was kind of a ParentalSubstitute for the youngest children in her last days there ''and'' she got to enjoy the place's small library, she still couldn't make friends, and it didn't keep her from being bullied ''outside'' of it in her middle school years.]]

* In ''Literature/{{Hours}}'', Bethel Woods Orphanage is well run and well funded, even providing an allowance for performing extra chores. Just don't talk about "shimmerings", the mysterious program that children are randomly selected for when they reach a certain age.

* ''Film/NothingButTheNight'': Oddly enough, despite being an orphanage in a horror film, Iver House seems to be an extremely well run institution, and all the children there appear very happy. Of course, they do not know what is going one behind the scenes...