History Main / TheBabyTrap

* ''WebAnimation/RefreshingStories'': In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m26flFJbXBA "A Sudden Pregnancy Report when I'm Actually... Infertile,"]] after Hiroshi saves her from an alleged throng of punks who wanted to "get" her, Mitsuko tells him that she became pregnant with twins at an online meeting and demanded more money than necessary for childcare. Moreover, she also had her dad next to her to corroborate it. However, Hiroshi suspected their claims as he was diagnosed with stress-caused infertility. At their next video meeting, Hiroshi questions their relationship and reveals he's infertile. Moreover, he also summoned the aforementioned punks, whom Mitsuko came at with the same lie.

* The is part of the FreudianExcuse for a pair of CreepyTwins in the ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' spinoff ''Shonan 14 Days'': their mother was having an affair and had the kids in an attempt to blackmail the father into marrying her.
* In the sequel to ''Literature/HalfPrince'' Lan's brother pokes a hole in a condom to force Lolidragon to marry him when she's hesitant to commit.

* In the anime version of ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'', [[spoiler:Kotonoha is convinced Sekai did this to Makoto and cuts open Sekai's belly to "make sure" after [[AxCrazy murdering]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse her]].]] Is this what ''actually'' happened? [[spoiler:The show's ambiguous on it: Sekai has a fairly strong claim in regards to pregnancy itself, but it's left up in the air whether she deliberately pulled the trope, or this is just TeenPregnancy without the baby trap itself behind. (Some fans speculate that Sekai might not have been pregnant, but sincerely believed she was due to having symptoms that could easily be mistaken as those of pregnancy)]].

* Comedy writer/standup Ali Wong talked about this trope throughout her standup special "Baby Cobra". Specifically, she talked about turning her dating life around from the losers she used to date when she met her husband and going out of her way to be sure to get into a relationship with him and get him to propose to her because he had much better prospects for the future than any man she might otherwise date. She specifically, and repeatedly, describes it as "trapping" him, with the hope that thanks to his business background she could retire early and still live a happy, prosperous life of comfort. But at the very end of the special, it turns into a subversion when she describes discovering that his Harvard education had left him massively in debt and they would, in fact, be relying on ''her'' money from writing for shows like ''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'' to take care of it.
-->Worked hard to trap his ass, got him to propose to me, oh my God, then we got married, my dream is coming true, then we got pregnant, and recently we bought our first home together. And two weeks into the escrow process, I learned that my beautiful, Harvard-educated husband was ''seventy thousand dollars'' in debt. And me, with my hard-earned T.V. money, wound up paying it all off. [{{beat}}] So as it turns out, he's the one who trapped '''''me!''''' ... Now if I don't work, we die! Why else do think I'm doing this show while seven and a half months pregnant?!

* Part of the [[InfoDump backstory dump]] Selina tells Damian in ''Batman: Angel of Death'' is that her mother Isabella was mistress to a wealthy man ([[MythologyGag implied to be mafia don Carmine Falcone]]), and got pregnant hoping he would leave his real family for her. It didn't work at all, so Isabella quickly pulled this on Selina's "legal" father, Brian Kyle, who did marry her. This is what first comes close to endearing her to Damian, who is [[CommonalityConnection the product of similar circumstances]].

* Averted in ''Film/TheBigLebowski''. Maude contrives to have what the Dude at first thinks is a casual fling with him. [[OhCrap When he realises she slept with him expressly to conceive a child]], she assures him that she picked him as the father specifically because she didn't want the biological father to have any desire whatsoever to be involved in the child's upbringing.

* One weird example: In the movie ''Film/FrenchTwist'', a lesbian asks her girlfriend's husband to get her pregnant. The film then picks up again after she's had the baby, and ends with [[spoiler:the four of them (lesbian, girlfriend, husband, and baby) living together happily.]]
** The original release also has the husband being seduced by a guy. This was left out of the American release, for [[ValuesDissonance obvious reasons]].

* Another weird example: in the movie ''Film/AHomeAtTheEndOfTheWorld'' a gay man named Johnathan is attempting to get his best friend, a straight woman named Clare, pregnant so they can both raise the baby together. When Jonathan's old boyfriend Bobby enters their life and also begins a sexual relationship with Clare, it obviously creates huge discourse within the trio. When Johnathan has finally had enough a threatens to leave them both, Clare reveals that she's pregnant, [[spoiler:although she doesn't mention who the father is]]. This causes both Bobby and Johnathan to [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter put aside their differences and they all raise the baby together as a family unit]].
* In the film version of ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', Lestat seems to first see Claudia as the "baby" for his version of this, to force Louis to stay with him. [[HoYay It's interesting.]]

* Though it's a recurring point in ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman'', the movie also tries something different: [[spoiler:Lynette only claims to be pregnant so that Sid stays in a relationship with her. She spills the beans when he resigns from the military to be with her, which she didn't want. One has to wonder when she would have confessed her lack of pregnancy otherwise.]]

* Lynette is the aspiration for Caitlyn [=McNabb=], one of the main antagonists of the TV movie ''Film/RevengeOfTheBridesmaids''. When her mom grows too old to snag her fourth husband, Caitlyn [[GoldDigger carries on the family tradition.]] After an impulsive one-night stand with her friend Racheal’s super-rich ex-boyfriend Tony, she fakes a pregnancy to trick him into marriage, even though he’s still in love with Racheal and vice versa. She even cheats on a doctor’s test using her best friend’s sister's urine, who’s constantly pregnant due to being married to an Irish Catholic. [[spoiler: Of course, by the end of the movie, Tony’s suspicious of her true motives, and lies about his family losing his fortune to test her. Once she thinks that Tony’s broke, Caitlyn loses all interest and reveals her lie, and the wedding is called off.]]
* Diana, the mother in ''Film/TooCloseToHome'', believes that this was pulled on her son to get him to marry his child's mother. This was averted since the son's wife confessed to her pregnancy after he asked her to marry him.

* Subverted in the film ''Film/WatchIt''; [[spoiler:Ellen, who had been happily seeing Rick until he started acting like a jerk toward her, tells Rick she's pregnant and is keeping the baby. However, it turns out to be a practical joke she and John (his roommate) cooked up to get Rick to grow up and be a man]].

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'':
** This is speculated by Dumbledore to be the reason Merope Gaunt stops giving Tom Riddle Sr. love potions. She did it in the hope that he had really fallen in love with her, or would at least stay for the sake of the child she was pregnant with. Turns out he did neither.
** It's also speculated that this was the reason the Muggles of Tom Riddle Sr.'s village used to explain why he inexplicably abandoned his previous girlfriend and ran off with a poor girl who lived in a shack, before coming back claiming he'd been deceived - that Merope lied to him that she was pregnant with his child.
* Invoked in a supernatural way in ''Literature/InterviewWithTheVampire'': Lestat changes Claudia [[UndeadChild into a vampire]] so Louis will not leave him -- if Louis leaves, Lestat will starve Claudia to madness.
* From Thomas Hardy's ''Literature/JudeTheObscure'': Arabella, acting on the advice of her friends, uses this ploy to get Jude Fawley to marry her. It works but, oddly enough, she forgets about the baby till Jude reminds her months later. She just makes up a miscarriage and he believes her. At first. Though she's certainly not above doing it, it's a bit more ambiguous than that, since she tells her friends (to whom she has no reason to lie) that she genuinely thought herself pregnant. It gets weirder though when eight years later, [[spoiler:after they've divorced, she tells him that they did indeed have a child together, born after they were separated, and could he please look after the kid now?]]

* A male example: in ''Literature/MoralityMeat'' by James Tiptree Jr., a woman gets pregnant because her boyfriend pokes holes in the condoms. She found out about it after she heard him tell a friend to "keep his women a little bit pregnant". Classy.

* A particularly dark example in ''Literature/SalemsLot'', where Reggie Sawyer punishes his wife for her adultery by repeatedly beating and raping her...after flushing her birth control pills down the toilet. Yeah, Reggie [[AssholeVictim richly earned]] the LaserGuidedKarma that he got later.
* The third book of the ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'' series reveals [[spoiler:the main characters, Sophie and Agatha, are the result of this. Their mother Vanessa orchestrated a one-night stand with Stefan, the man she was obsessed with, so he would have to marry her. When she could only give birth to stillborns, Vanessa took a fertility potion and had twin girls, abandoning the ugly one but keeping the beautiful one to save her marriage. While Stefan stayed for his daughter's sake, like all Vanessa's past and future attempts, it failed to make him love his wife.]]

* In the second book of ''Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants'' series, [[spoiler:a girl that Kostos slept with does this in order to guilt him into marrying her.]] In the fourth book, it's revealed that [[spoiler:she faked the pregnancy.]]
* One case that [[{{Deconstruction}} deals with the aftermath of this]] is ''Literature/SistersFound'', where one of the lead characters had been adopted for just this reason. When it wasn't enough for the adoptive father to stay, the adoptive mother became an alcoholic and resented the hell out of her daughter. To make things worse, said daughter later finds out [[spoiler:that she was the only one of identical triplets to be given up - one of the other two had a medical problem and the cost of hospital bills was such that it was either give up one child or lose them all when Social Services saw they couldn't support their family]]. Not surprisingly, she has ''major'' commitment/abandonment issues.
* Mentioned at the beginning of the first ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' book. Used by Drefan Rahl's mother with [[BigBad Darken Rahl]]. Her theory was that if she could give birth to a magically gifted child and heir, Darken Rahl would shower her with riches and status. When Drefan was born and found to be non-gifted, his mother [[OhCrap began to realize]] that her new son was now a liability and that her master plan was probably not the smartest thing she'd ever done. Before Darken Rahl found out about the child, she brought him to a remote monastery to be raised by monks and, in perpetual fear of the infinitely creative ways Darken Rahl would end her life if she were found, poisoned herself. [[spoiler:Drefan [[TurnOutLikeHisFather turned out like his father]].]]

* A male version on ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'' had Sly poking a hole in the condom so that he could "do the right thing" and marry his girlfriend Jessica -- and get his hands on her money. It failed when he was too drunk to complete the deed.

* A rare version on ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', where the man ''knew'' that he wasn't the father. After a teenage girl was raped, she only confided in her friend. When she learned she was pregnant, he claimed he was the father to spare her the humiliation of telling everyone what had happened to her. Desperate for some [=TLC=] after her ordeal, she began using the pregnancy to draw closer to him. When she miscarried after falling down, she blamed it on his girlfriend, putting the final nail in the coffin of their relationship, until she finally admitted that she'd tripped on her own, rather than being shoved.
* Anya tries to do this with Sav on ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', but she ends up telling him and taking the morning-after pill.
* On ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', this is how Orson ended up married to his first wife. Then after he divorced her and remarried, she raped him in order to get pregnant and trap him again.

* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' season 2, Lily considered doing this to prevent Marshall from falling for Chloe. The alternative is called "Chloe's accident".
** When Lily left him, Marshall laments that he should have 'knocked her up when he had the chance'.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': Used a couple of times

* An unusual male example occurs in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' with a narcissistic man who pokes holes in condoms to force women to have his children. He's not particularly interested in staying in a relationship with any of these women, he just thinks the world would benefit from having lots of his offspring around. He personally thinks that he's a great father, as he financially supports all of them, but the mothers, naturally, don't. It finally ends badly for him, when one of the women he was trying to get pregnant decides to strike back. Also sort of done in another episode where a 16-year-old was raped by her dentist uncle and was trying to get him to confess while cops were listening. At first, he denies everything until she mentions being late and pregnant. He tells her to calm down and that she can't possibly be pregnant due to him having gotten a vasectomy. Whoops. Nick sums it up nicely: ''I've never met a bad man that wasn't afraid of a baby.'' Read more: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=law-and-order-special-victims-unit&episode=s16e13
* Subverted on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' when Claire gets pregnant [[ButWeUsedACondom despite being on the pill]]. At first, her boyfriend is supportive and convinces her to keep the baby. Once the reality of the situation hits him [[{{Jerkass}} he]] turns around and accuses her of lying about taking her birth control to get him to stay with her. Claire rightfully calls him out on his selective memory and after he leaves makes arrangements to have the child adopted.

* On ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'', [[spoiler:Adrian plans to try this on Ben]] in an attempt to save their marriage since [[spoiler:they only got married because [[ShotgunWedding Adrian was pregnant]], and their relationship started to deteriorate after their daughter was stillborn]]. Since things were great [[spoiler:when she was pregnant, she seems to think [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter another baby will fix things]]]]. Ultimately, [[spoiler:she gives up on the plan when her doctor talks her out of it]] and when [[spoiler:Ben finds out her plan, keeps rejecting her advances, and finally confronts her about it. Though it seems he was willing to go along with it and genuinely sad when she really "wanted out".]]

* ''Fanfic/InTheBleakMidwinter'': When Fiona sees Hermione breastfeed little Tommy, she jumps to the conclusion that he must be Hermione's, not Merope's, and that Hermione is just trying to extort something from the Riddles. Hermione's explanation that she's taken a wet nurse potion is not necessarily convincing, but it certainly changes the subject.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', [[ShakespeareInFiction Shakespeare's]] wife implies she did this to Will and Will seems to think his eldest daughter is planning the same for her boyfriend.

* In the Creator/MaeveBinchy novel ''Circle Of Friends'', after being ditched by her lover and not wanting to have an abortion, a desperate Nan seduces Jack—''her best friend's boyfriend''—and tells him he's the baby's father, knowing that he'll do the right thing and offer to marry her.

** In ''Welcome to Temptation'', this happens twice. The main male character (many years before the book starts) marries his girlfriend at the time who becomes pregnant after lying to him about using birth control. A minor main character also marries a girlfriend who claims she's pregnant (also many years earlier), despite being in love with someone else. As the book puts it, "Eleven months later, sure enough, she had a baby."
** In ''What the Lady Wants'', Armand first gets [[spoiler:June pregnant, then when that child dies he brings home his orphaned niece so she wouldn't leave.]] Then there's Stormy, who [[spoiler:poked holes in the condoms so Armand would marry her, not knowing he had a secret vasectomy years before.]]
** In ''Tell Me Lies'', while preparing to file for divorce, Maddie finds a letter with her husband, Brent's, things, in which another woman tells him that she's pregnant. It takes her most of the book to figure out what actually happened. She eventually finds out that [[spoiler: years before the story opens, Maddie's best friend, Treva, got accidentally pregnant by Brent when they cheated on their partners together, wrote the letter in question, then tricked her boyfriend, Howie, into thinking the baby was his and marrying her. However, Treva and Howie ended up HappilyMarried, and it turns out Howie figured it out very early on due to blood typing and was initially upset but got over it.]]

* In ''David Meyer is a Mother'' the title character wants a child so badly that when his girlfriend refuses, he switches her birth control pills for baby aspirin and, when she finds out she is pregnant, manages to convince her to have the child with the assurance that he will be solely responsible for its care and upbringing.

* Subverted in ''Egalia's Daughters'' - men are the ones responsible for oral contraception and have to earn a woman's approval to become social fathers to a child. There is a very tragic male character who works as a teacher, and one of the boys in his class is his biological son, with whom he had no contact prior to that.

* From Thomas Hardy's ''Literature/JudeTheObscure'': Arabella, acting on the advice of her friends, uses this ploy to get Jude Fawley to marry her. It works but, oddly enough, she forgets about the baby till Jude reminds her months later. She just makes up a miscarriage and he believes her. At first.
** Though she's certainly not above doing it, it's a bit more ambiguous than that, since she tells her friends (to whom she has no reason to lie) that she genuinely thought herself pregnant. It gets weirder though when eight years later, [[spoiler:after they've divorced, she tells him that they did indeed have a child together, born after they were separated, and could he please look after the kid now?]]

* A male example: in ''Morality Meat'' by James Tiptree Jr., a woman gets pregnant because her boyfriend pokes holes in the condoms. She found out about it after she heard him tell a friend to "keep his women a little bit pregnant". Classy.

* ''Parade's End'': in England before WWI, a beautiful but manipulative socialite tricks a wealthy aristocrat into marrying her when she discovers she's pregnant after having a quickie with him after a chance meeting on a train. Worst still the baby may not even be his due to the woman's promiscuous ways, though he does leave her for another woman he actually loves in the end.

* In ''The Secret Love Child'', the hero either sabotages the condom or simply chooses not to tell the heroine that it broke. Naturally, she gets pregnant. Naturally, they get together and it is All Very Romantic. Luckily she apparently really really wanted to have babies.

* One case that [[{{Deconstruction}} deals with the aftermath of this]] is ''Sisters Found'', where one of the lead characters had been adopted for just this reason. When it wasn't enough for the adoptive father to stay, the adoptive mother became an alcoholic and resented the hell out of her daughter. To make things worse, said daughter later finds out [[spoiler:that she was the only one of identical triplets to be given up - one of the other two had a medical problem and the cost of hospital bills was such that it was either give up one child or lose them all when Social Services saw they couldn't support their family]]. Not surprisingly, she has ''major'' commitment/abandonment issues.
* Mentioned at the beginning of the first ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' book.
** Used by Drefan Rahl's mother with [[BigBad Darken Rahl]]. Her theory was that if she could give birth to a magically gifted child and heir, Darken Rahl would shower her with riches and status. When Drefan was born and found to be non-gifted, his mother [[OhCrap began to realize]] that her new son was now a liability and that her master plan was probably not the smartest thing she'd ever done. Before Darken Rahl found out about the child, she brought him to a remote monastery to be raised by monks and, in perpetual fear of the infinitely creative ways Darken Rahl would end her life if she were found, poisoned herself. [[spoiler:Drefan [[TurnOutLikeHisFather turned out like his father]].]]

->'''Bart:''' Cathy, you told me there was no need for precautions!\\
'''Cathy:''' There was no need. I want your baby.\\
'''Bart:''' ''You want my baby?'' What the hell do you think I can do, marry you?\\
'''Cathy:''' No. I did my own assuming. I presumed you'd have your fun with me and when it was over you'd go back to your wife and find yourself another playmate. And I'd have just what I set out to get -- your baby. Now I can leave. So kiss me off, Bart, as just another of your little extramarital dalliances.
-->-- ''Literature/PetalsOnTheWind''

** In ''Tell Me Lies'': Maddie finds a letter with her husband, Brent's, things, in which another woman tells him that she's pregnant, but it takes her most of the story to figure out what actually happened. She eventually finds out that [[spoiler: years before the story opens, Maddie's best friend, Treva, got accidentally pregnant by Brent when they cheated on their partners together, wrote the letter in question, then tricked her boyfriend, Howie, into thinking the baby was his and marrying her. However, Treva and Howie ended up HappilyMarried, and it turns out Howie figured it out very early on due to blood typing and was initially upset but got over it. Maddie is mad at first, but soon forgives Treva.]]

* ''Series/{{Reba}}'': In the episode "Locked and Loaded", Brock gets his vasectomy reversed, but decides not to tell Barbra Jean since he believes that getting her pregnant would help solve their marital problems. Reba forces Brock to tell Barbra Jean the truth. She doesn't react well at all and not only forces Brock to [[ExiledToTheCouch sleep on the couch]], but the two announce their separation the next day (fortunately, they ultimately stay together.)

See also FakePregnancy. Compare GoldDigger and HoneyTrap. Not to be mistaken for ''BabyBoomers''. Has nothing to do with ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1961}}''.

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* Years back in Texas, a man was required to pay child support after a woman performed oral sex on him and then inseminated herself with the gathered sperm after he left. He didn't find out that they had a daughter until ''years'' later after she sued for child support.
** The German version of the same story is even more famous as [[UsefulNotes/{{Tennis}} tennis ace Boris Becker]] gave the male part, making him the butt of countless jokes.
** Similarly, in 2013 Kansas started a lawsuit to [[http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/04/us/kansas-sperm-donation make a sperm donor pay for child-support]] when the woman he'd donated to requested financial assistance from the State. Interestingly, this is being done ''solely'' by the State, over the objections of all involved parties, and declaring a signed contract null-and-void in the process due to the phrasing of its sperm donor laws.
** There was a more disturbing [[https://law.justia.com/cases/alabama/court-of-appeals-civil/1996/2950025-0.html case in Alabama]] where a woman had sex with a man she met at a party ''while he was unconscious'' with the intention of getting pregnant and suing him for child support. The guy produced witnesses who testified that he had passed out drunk and overheard her bragging about what she had done, but it made no difference and the court still ordered him to pay child support.
* Does happen in RealLife, tragically more often with abusive couples [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter who believe that a baby will force their partner to stay]]. Sadly, they're sometimes right, especially when their partner would have financial troubles or lose custody of the child if they left. Some women will deliberately get pregnant to get child support off of the man since it tends to also qualify her for other forms of government assistance (assuming she's not too wealthy). While laws are slowly becoming more gender neutral, the man will probably lose anyway if the woman was someone he just had a fling with, and so this is exploited by some women. The CDC's 2010 [[http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/NISVS_Report2010-a.pdf Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey]] found that approximately 4.8% of women and 8.7% of men had a sexual partner who tried to get them pregnant or get pregnant against their will.
* Possibly related to this, there is an increasing number of men who have chosen to get vasectomies in their early twenties. Since the childfree are still something of an AcceptableTarget, many doctors will outright refuse to perform them under the belief that the man will always change his mind. For a woman who hasn't had children as well, it is next to impossible to convince a doctor to permanently sterilise her. Many doctors are very insistent that ''everyone really wants babies'', or are wary of being sued by a patient whom they sterilise then later changes his/her mind.
* Crosses over into ChildByRape territory with abusive men who intentionally impregnate their female partner in order to make her stay, as the MaritalRapeLicense is common in abusive relationships. The reverse is possible as well.
* The Department of Defense is very aware of the Baby Trap, particularly in regard to the service academies of West Point, Annapolis, and the Air Force Academy. Cadets at these institutions are told in no uncertain terms that marrying while a cadet means being automatically dismissed from their school. Not only is this because the male cadets have absolutely zero time for a wife, but also to make them aware that they have to be very, very careful. Female cadets who get pregnant are also automatically dismissed.
* Unfortunately common in the VisualKei and Japanese rock/metal scene and with hosts, where {{fangirl}}s and ''mitsu'' (women paying hosts/musicians for sex) have found out that under Japanese law, they have 100 percent rights to the child (even if the father actually wants the child and/or the mother is [[AbusiveParents abusive]]), can often force a ShotgunWedding to the artist or at the very least demand ongoing child support payments (which often itself forces a wedding and short marriage, if the man was dependent on them, to begin with), and because many men in Japan, including hosts and musicians, prefer condomless sex in the first place. Smarter cisgender men who work as hosts/do mitsu/sleep around ''do'' keep their own condoms and use them, or get vasectomies, for this very reason.
* A common theme among many stories of professional athletes going broke, despite making tens of millions of dollars in salaries/bonuses/endorsements, is fathering multiple children with multiple women, many of whom seek to get pregnant in order to be able to extract child support payments. One former NFL player has ''ten'' children. By ''ten'' different women. This often leads to declaring bankruptcy or being arrested for failure to pay child support.
* There was a case of a man suing a woman over lying to him that she was on birth control and then demanding child support. While the judge was sympathetic to the man, he still ruled in favor of the woman, pointing out that he was more concerned with the welfare of the child, who would suffer if deprived of child support payments.
* In a rather infamous case, Music/JustinBieber was sued by a woman over a backstage encounter that resulted in a child. Unfortunately for her, what she [[DidntThinkThisThrough failed to take into account]] was that, according to the date she provided for the encounter, he was 16 and she 19, meaning that if it were true she would be guilty of ''[[{{Ephebophile}} statutory rape]]'' (and, of course, if it wasn't true, she would be guilty of defamation and extortion).
* [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} TheOtherWiki]] has an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_theft entire article]] documenting many bizarre (and sometimes disturbing) cases of this.
* There are stories on the internet of ''mothers'' tampering with their child's or child's partner's contraceptives [[IWantGrandkids because they weren't having children fast enough for the mother's liking]], and she decides to force the issue.
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* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' plays around quite a bit with this in a rare example of this being done for non-selfish reasons. After a particularly nasty battle in the second season, [[PluckyGirl Atra]] gets it in her head to have a child with the protagonist [[AntiHero Mikazuki]] to give him a reason to live and snap him out of his self-destructive tendencies. And if it's not with her, then him impregnating [[TheOjou Kudelia]] is another option. [[spoiler:Hilariously, when she finally does ask Mika about it, his response is basically "Yeah, sure"... Unfortunately, he winds up dying in the end anyway, leaving Atra to raise little Akatsuki [[HasTwoMommies with Kudelia]].]]

* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2172417/1/False-Smiles False Smiles]]" features a variation of this where both parties ''believed'' that the pregnancy was real, with Faith realising that her period is late after her night with Xander. As the two adjust to the idea of becoming parents, Xander's growing interest in Faith's life leads to him managing to stop her accidentally killing Deputy Mayor Finch, allowing them to outright prevent the ascension. On a more personal level, the two develop genuine feelings for each other beyond just a one-night stand, so that by the time they learn Faith ''isn't'' pregnant (Angel was away and unaware of this belief, but confirms the truth through his enhanced senses), they realise that they are now genuinely in love. It is revealed to the reader that Whistler actually faked at least one of Faith's pregnancy tests to ensure that Faith would stay with Xander and avoid her canon fate.

* In ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'', this is very subtly implied to be Geordo's plans for his fiancee Catarina. He has directly proclaimed that the moment he can have Catarina alone long enough, he will "help himself to all of [her]" in order to create a "fait accompli" (aka, an act which cannot be undone). This greatly implies that his goal is to impregnate her as an InstantWinCondition against his rivals -- something that both Keith and Mary are well aware of, as both refuse to let Geordo be alone with Catarina for too long.