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Solomon Divorce
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Parents divorcing is often a stressful time for all involved. Among other things, one of the primary issues is which parent raises the children. This can turn into a very ugly battle in which both parents do their damnedest to ensure they get full custody of all the children. In fiction, another solution is sometimes agreed upon: the parents split the kids down the middle, á la the biblical story of Solomon. When this sort of split occurs, the father will get the sons or older children while the mother gets any daughters or younger children. This can and will occur regardless of one parent's skill, or even suitability, to raise a child. This split will often cause drama between the children, since a Solomon Divorce seems to also require that they never actually see one another again, even if they vehemently cried "Don't Split Us Up". The trope is a lot more common in fiction than reality. Children are (almost) never split up in a divorce with the possible exception of half- or step-siblings. That said, this does occur in certain circumstances; in the legal terminology, this is usually called a "split parenting situation" (and even then, the law makes it mandatory to at least recommend visiting times and/or therapy for the child). Named after the Judgment of Solomon, except in that case there was only one child and the whole thing was a ruse in any case. Can easily be seen as Values Dissonance, since within the setting this is almost never looked upon as all that unusual. Compare Separated at Birth for examples of when these siblings were separated by other factors and Taking the Kids for when custody is more unilateral. Examples |
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Digimon Digimon Adventure had this with Yamato and Takeru, with Yamato going to live with their father and Takeru staying with their mother. According to the Two-and-a-half Year Break CD drama, Yamato ultimately ended up making the decision of which kid went with which parent. Occurs in Digimon Frontier with Koji and Koichi. Koji lives with their dad, Koichi with their mom. Despite theim being identical twins, neither twin was aware of the other, with Koichi only finding out from his grandmother on the latter's deathbed. |
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Shugo and Rena .hack//Legend of the Twilight can apparently only meet in "The World." Though this isn't explained why it's possible they simply live across the country making meeting difficult. This is only in the non-canon anime however. The Manga has their parents together and they are sitting right next to each other while playing the game. | |
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Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kästner is the original novel from which The Parent Trap was adapted. It follows the same plot of two girls meeting, realizing they're identical twins, and proceeding to do a Twin Switch to get to know their other parent. | |
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Setsuna and Sara in Angel Sanctuary, although they make a point of getting together. Sara refers to it as dating, and that's not the worst of it. | |
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This is the cause of the rift between the main characters in Warrior. Due to the father being an abusive alcoholic, the mother decided to run away and take the kids. Younger brother Tommy was happy to go, even though he was his father's favorite and star athlete. Older brother Brendan decided to stay because he fell in love with his Highschool Sweetheart and also at the possibility of gaining some time with his father, since he always felt as if he was the Unfavorite. | |
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Digimon Adventure had this with Yamato and Takeru, with Yamato going to live with their father and Takeru staying with their mother. According to the Two-and-a-half Year Break CD drama, Yamato ultimately ended up making the decision of which kid went with which parent. | |
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Koshiro & Nanoka in Koi Kaze were separated for ten years following their parents divorce. The only reason Nanoka comes to live with Koshiro and their father: It's convenient for school. | |
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Terry and Matt in Batman Beyond. In the the first episode, Matt lives with their mom, while Terry lives with their father. Unlike most examples, there appears to be regular visitation. As the series wears on it is suggested that prior to the pilot episode Terry's parents shared joint custody of their sons and the two would shuttle back and forth between them, something that played a part in Terry's early juvenile delinquency. | |
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: When Shirogane's mom left seven years before the story began, she took his little sister Kei with her (since she was a serious Education Mama and Kei was more successful in her studies). Kei is already back to living with her father and brother by the time the story starts because she ran away from her mother. | |
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Briefly mentioned in an episode of NCIS. A pair of brothers was split up when their parents divorced; the mother was "only able to save one," while the other was raised by the father in a town with a brewing feud. The "saved" brother wound up becoming a marine, thus dragging NCIS into it when he went back to help his brother with said feud. | |
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Roommates: Jareth ended up with his mother (Jadis The White Witch) while his sister was taken by their father (the Erlkönig). In a ways it's playing with the trope, as it is implied that Jadis isn't the mother of the girl, so she kept her own child to protect him from a perceived threat. | |
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Despicable Me 3 has Gru finding out that he has a twin brother and that right after they were born their parents got divorced, each took a child, and agreed never to see each other again. | |
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In The DCU, this happened in the backstory of Todd Rice, aka Obsidian. After his adoptive father lost his job and started drinking heavily, Mrs. Rice eventually got fed up and declared she and the younger son were leaving. Todd didn't want to leave his father alone and stayed; his mother walked out with little Jeremy without a second thought or a forwarding address, and was never heard from again. | |
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In Ultimate Misfits, Phyllis and her twin David were split up as infants when their parents divorced. In this case, the father got the daughter and the mother got the son. When their parents died in a plane crash when they were two, Phyllis' adopted father Emmett was unable to find David's whereabouts. Phyllis and David didn't reunite until age 21, after Emmett had died of illness. David had been adopted by a Japanese couple and raised in Japan. | |
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Saki has the titular character living with her father in a relatively remote area while her elder sister lives with their mother in Tokyo. The Miyanagas are separated, but not yet divorced, and Saki holds out hope that they will be able to reunite as a family. | |
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Of all shows, Robot Chicken points out the Fridge Horror of this trope, especially in regards to The Parent Trap (1998). | |
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Strobe Edge: Daiki lives with his dad and Mayuka with her mom after their parents divorced. | |
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Forms the backstory of The Parent Trap (1961) (and its 1998 remake). The parents of a pair of infant twin girls each take one with them after they divorce, completely lose touch with the other half of the family, and never even tell their daughters that they have a sibling, let alone a twin. The girls only find out about it after meeting each other by chance when they're teenagers. | |
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In The Babysitters Club, Dawn's mother initially received full custody of her and her younger brother, Jeff. She abruptly decided to move them back to her hometown in Stoneybrook, Connecticut while her ex-husband stayed in California. Jeff started acting out after a while, because he missed both his father and his hometown, and eventually moved back in with him. Dawn, meanwhile, had an easier time sticking it out because she'd made more friends initially, but her own homesickness led to her spending first a semester with her father, before eventually moving back in with him full-time as well. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!, Katsuya Jonouchi lived with his father, an alcoholic and gambling addict (which is probably a factor why his dueling style heavily involves luck and is sparse on rare and reliable cards), while his sister Shizuka lived with their mother. Jonouchi and his mother were reluctant to even speak to each other until his sister's eye surgery (which Jonouchi paid for), and the plot didn't dwell on it. (Seeing as he was very close to his sister after that, we can assume he and his mother were at least on speaking terms.) | |
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The motivation behind a pair of unsubs in one episode of Criminal Minds to kidnap a bus full of high schoolers. Their parents' divorce sent them to opposite ends of the country. It's actually how the team was able to identify them. Their major form of contact was online gaming with each other, and Garcia was befuddled by the fact that they'd originally been logging in from the same location them suddenly started logging on from so far apart. When Reid suggests it's because their parents divorced, it's treated as the obvious answer, suggesting this is the standard. The divorce was so traumatic that they ended up deciding to create what could be best described as "what if Jigsaw decided to base his games on a First-Person Shooter?" | |
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AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative: Yoneharu Enda is divorced and lives with his son Shoma; his daughter chose to live with his wife but is on good terms with them and works to support them. Said daughter turns out to be Amame Doi, whose surname obfuscates their relationship. | |
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In A Murder Is Announced Pip and Emma were separated by their parents in this manner. It has been so long that when they are both living in the same house, they don't recognize each other initially. | |
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Fresh Pretty Cure!: Miki Aoni/Cure Berry lives with her divorced mom, and her Disappeared Dad took her brother Kazuki with him. They just coincidentally attend the same school, and then Miki took advantage of the fact that nobody knew they were related to ask Kazuki to pretend that they were a couple, so Miki doesn't get swarmed with a lot of unwanted admirers. | |
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A tragic example happens in Major. Joe Gibson's wife Laura filed for divorce after he refused to go back to North America, taking their baby daughter Melissa with her while their son Junior stayed with him in Japan. Then a few months later, they learn that Laura and Melissa died in a car crash. | |
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Averted in the manga Little House with an Orange Roof, Shoutaro and Natsumi gain full custody of both their children following their respective divorces. Further, Natsumi's struggle to keep her children in the face of a disapproving ex-mother-in-law is a plot point. | |
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Occurs in Digimon Frontier with Koji and Koichi. Koji lives with their dad, Koichi with their mom. Despite theim being identical twins, neither twin was aware of the other, with Koichi only finding out from his grandmother on the latter's deathbed. | |
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In How I Met Your Father, Jesse and Ellen's parents split up when they were nine and five respectively. Ellen went to live with their mother and her new boyfriend while Jesse stayed with their father primarily out of pity. As adults, they are estranged to the point that Jesse isn't even aware the Ellen took their mother's name after the divorce. | |
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In Saiyuki, this is part of Hakkai's convoluted backstory. His parents divorced when he was a toddler, with his mother taking him and his father taking his twin sister. They didn't meet again until they encountered each other by chance at school and promptly fell in love. Too bad about that Westermarck Effect never having the chance to kick in... | |
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