History Main / PlatonicCoParenting

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* From season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' onward, Artemis platonically lives with her sister's ex-husband to raise her niece with him. While some of their friends and family either assume the two are in a romantic relationship or push them to consider starting one, when Roy decides to test the waters with a romantic dinner and the two share a kiss, they both admit that [[NoSparks they felt nothing]] and gratefully agree that they are perfectly happy with their relationship as-is.

* From season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' onward, Artemis platonically lives with her sister's ex-husband to raise her niece with him.

* ''Series/GimmeABreak'': Nell, ostensibly just the housekeeper, served as a surrogate mother to Chief Carl Kanisky's three teenage daughters (and later, [[CousinOliver adopted son Joey]]). A flashback featuring the girls' late mother showed that she asked Nell to stay with her family for that purpose (as she'd recently learned she had terminal lung cancer). There was some mild ShipTease between Nell and Carl in the fourth season, which was cut short by the death of Carl's actor, Dolph Sweete.

* By the sequel to ''Film/ThreeMenAndABaby'' the three men have formed a unit with Mary's mother Sylvia that sees all four of them raising her together as equal parents. Jack, Mary's biological father, also makes it clear that while he jokingly flirts with her a lot neither he nor Sylvia are interested in getting together.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit:'' Downplayed, but Amanda Rollins essentially spends several years co-parenting her daughters with her close friend and police partner, Sonny Carisi. As a single parent, Amanda had expressed some insecurities about her abilities to mother, and Sonny stepped in to help. Over time, the show deepens his involvement with Amanda's children, with him eventually becoming her younger daughter's godfather. When Amanda and Sonny eventually get their RelationshipUpgrade, the dynamic between the four of them changes so little that they're able to avoid disclosing to the girls for over six months, only being forced to when Jesse asks directly if Sonny is Billie's father.

* In the TMNT and Spiderverse crossover ''Fanfic/SpiderNinja'', the twenty-something-year-old April O'Neil met the Turtles and [[GenderFlip Petra Parker]] when they were kids. Due to being the only other adult in the kids' lives, she became a parental figure to them and has this relationship with Master Splinter. Petra calls her "Aunt April" when they're out in public, and outright says at one point that April is the closest thing she and the Turtles have to a mom.

* A similar example to the above mentioned ''Best Friend'' in ''Circumstances of an Unexpected Trio'' series by ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4838495/Musicangel913 Musicangel913]]'', though they are also raising Draco along with Harry, who was given to them by Narcissa after her husband was tortured into insanity and learning that she'll be killed soon as a liability for being more loyal to her family than to Voldemort. When Harry asks Sirius how come he and Lily never got together romantically, Sirius admits that both were still holding a torch for their [[TheLostLenore deceased partners]] (James for Lily and Marlene for Sirus), and their attempts to come together due to the stress of raising the two boys and the approaching dates of their dead lover's anniversary lead them to admit they were BetterAsFriends, which in the long run helped their family unit.

* ''{{VideoGame/Touhou}}'' fanworks occasionally depict Sanae (who came to Gensokyo as a teenager) as being raised by the goddesses of the Moriya shrine, Kanako Yasaka and Suwako Moriya. It gets complicated when you remember Suwako is actually Sanae's very distant ancestor.

* Despite what shippers say, and the massive amount of HomoeroticSubtext, by ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', Otacon and Snake platonically live together as her two dads, raising Olga's daughter, Sunny.

* In the TMNT and Spiderverse crossover ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'', the twenty-something-year-old April O'Neil met the Turtles and [[GenderFlip Petra Parker]] when they were kids. Due to being the only other adult in the kids' lives, she became a parental figure to them and has this relationship with Master Splinter. Petra calls her "Aunt April" when they're out in public, and outright says at one point that April is the closest thing she and the Turtles have to a mom.

* In ''Sympathy Seeker'', 29-year-old Anastasia searches for her DisappearedDad, knowing only his name and vague details of her parents' brief meeting. She ends up finding ''three'' lonely old men, each of whom potentially fits these details. They get on so well together that Anastasia asks all three to stay on as her dads, even hiding her mother's photo to prevent them from finding out which one is the real father. [[spoiler:Turns out, no one is, but they still ultimately decide to stay]].

* The plot of ''Series/FullHouse'' is about a widower, his best friend, and his brother-in-law raising his children together.

* In the TMNT and Spiderverse crossover ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'', April O'Neil met the turtles and [[GenderFlip Petra Parker]] when they were kids. Due to being the only other adult in the kids' lives, she became a parental figure to them and has this relationship with Master Splinter. Petra calls her "Aunt April" when they're out in public, and outright says at one point that April is the closest thing she and the turtles have to a mom.

* ''Series/TheOrville'': In the third season, Bortus' child Topa [[spoiler: transitions back into a girl, causing her father Klyden to leave her and Bortus.]] As a result, Commander Grayson steps up and becomes Topa's mentor and mother-figure. Kelly and Bortus have one of the strongest friendships on board, but they have no romantic attraction to one another (quickly correcting a little girl who asked if they were "mates" (married)). Still, they work together to provide Topa with a strong support system, [[spoiler: even busting into a Moclan black site to save her]] and Kelly remains a part of the family [[spoiler: even after Klyden returns]].

* The show ''Series/MyTwoDads'' is about a young girl who, following the death of her mother, is raised by two of her ex-boyfriends--''one'' of them is her father, but they don't know who. The two dads were friends who fell out some time ago, but resolve to put their differences aside for the kid's sake.