History Main / SecretOtherFamily

* In ''{{Mushishi}}'', Ginko helps a woman and her son; the woman's husband is missing, and neither of them know what became of him. In the end, they find him living with his other family and child. [[spoiler: [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweetly]], the woman will never remember it, because of her anterograde amnesia. But she won't have to deal with the pain of knowing her beloved husband left her, either.]]

* In the PGWodehouse story ''The Luck Of The Bodkins'', about a transatlantic steamer, the author writes that on landing in New York, those of the crew "who are bigamists have long since got over the pang of parting from their wives and children in Southampton and are looking forward with bright affection to meeting their wives and children in New York."

* There was an episode of ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' where a pillar of the community turned out to have maintained two families for a long time. Then two of his children started a relationship, without knowing they were half-siblings.

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* The financial difficulties arising from supporting a SecretOtherFamily was the criminal's motive in the SherlockHolmes story ''The Adventure of the Silver Blaze''.

* Josef Fritzl started a [[{{Squick}} Squick-y]] one of these with his daughter Elisabeth. He imprisoned her in the cellar when she was eighteen years old and she was successfully kept there for twenty-four years. Meanwhile, [[ParentalIncest Josef raped her]] [[{{Squick}} enough times that she gave birth to]] [[MassivelyNumberedSiblings seven children]] [[{{Squick}} all fathered by him]]. And the way Elisabeth and the three children who he kept down there with her lived, they were certainly one of these for Josef Fritzl, with himself as the loving and benevolent patriarch who would come down to give his other wife (Elisabeth) flowers and have consensual (as he described it) sex with her and spend time with their children.

* Lois Lane discovers this about [[http://www.superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=33:weird-science-index&id=438:superman-digs-mermaids&Itemid=24#content Superman]]

* Don Geiss in ''[[ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]'' turned out to have a secret Canadian family ''and'' a secret attic family.

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* ''{{Bones}}'': A VicitmOfTheWeek had two families and also knocked up the secretary of the construction firm he worked at.

* Taken to deliberately absurd lengths in series 4 of BleakExpectations, when Harry Biscuit, paranoid about losing his new wife to the villain who stole his last one, marries 92 other women as spares and must then prevent any of them from meeting. For added ludicrousness, this takes place confined to a ship in the middle of the ocean. Upon arriving in America, Harry solves his problem by becoming a Mormon - Whereupon, of course, all 93 wives immediately desert him for the villain.

* In the PGWodehouse story ''The Luck Of The Bodkins'', about a transatlantic steamer, the author writes that on landing in New York, those of the crew "who are bigamists have long since got over the pang of parting from their wives and children in Southampton and are looking forward and are looking forward with bright affection to meeting their wives and children in New York."

* [[spoiler: Satoshi Oginome]] in ''MawaruPenguindrum'' either falls under this or ParentWithNewParamour as we find out in Episode 8.

* [[spoiler: Satoshi Oginome]] in MawaruPenguindrum either falls under this or [[spoiler: ParentWithnewParamour.]]

* The bartender from ''KrodMandoon''.

** In "Divorce Party" of ''CSIMiami'' also had the father who had a Secret Other Family murdered [[spoiler: by his own son after the son discovered that he had been dating his half-sister. They fell in love and is having a baby together]].

* The victim in an episode of ''{{Bones}}'' had two wives and a kid by each, both with the same degenerative bone condition that he had. [[spoiler: Unsurprisingly, the wives did him in.]]

* In the play ''Fool for Love'' by Sam Shepard, the main couple are half-siblings who committed BrotherSisterIncest before either of them knew their father had a SecretOtherFamily.

** A recent episode of ''CSIMiami'' also had the father who had a Secret Other Family murdered [[spoiler: by his own son after the son discovered that he had been dating his half-sister]].

* King Silas maintains a second family in the countryside on ''{{Kings}}''.

* JenniferAniston's dad has one in BackStory in her RomanticComedy with BenStiller. OrSoIHeard.