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A married couple a heated argument about their relationship. Maybe cheating is involved, or maybe one or both parties just can't stand the life they have together anymore. After a shouting match, one spouse storms out, but not before taking the kids with them. As an alternate scenario, they just leave, taking the kids and leaving a note while the other spouse is out at work. The direction this trope ends up taking is largely dependent on what the motivations of the significant other are in this situation. If a woman is dealing with an abusive husband (regardless of whether he's abusive to her, the kids, or both), then she is in the right and the husband is a villainous character whom we are clearly supposed to be rooting against. If she is shown to be an unpleasant character who is very selfishly taking the kids away as a means of spiting her husband, the husband is usually the hero. Another scenario involves relatively little animosity between the two at all — if the husband has gotten embroiled in a crazy conspiracy theory and the wife thinks he is losing his mind, then she can leave while Taking the Kids without any real hard feelings. Sure, the theory that Little Green Men are preparing to invade the planet might actually be true, but usually the husband and the audience can understand why the wife is skeptical and worried about the situation and don't hold it against her. In this situation, you can usually expect a happy reunion at the end once all the craziness is over with. If the estrangement explicitly turns into a divorce proceeding, usually the wife either gains full custody or the lion's share of the joint custody arrangement — which makes this trope general Truth in Television, as custody cases tend to tilt toward the mother unless the father holds a very clear advantage (typically monetary, but sometimes emotional connection) over his ex-wife. Even then the usual outcome is not sole but joint custody. For extra drama, you can make one of the two abduct the kids and take them far away from the other. To take this trope in the opposite direction (or for a different sort of drama), have them argue over who gets the dog instead. It should be noted that in some countries, leaving and taking the kids counts as both spousal abandonment and kidnapping, regardless of their sex. Closely related is Financial Abuse, where one (if not both) parties only want the kids for the financial benefits. Not to be confused with Custody Battle, which centers on the parents fighting for custody in court. |
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A comic for The Far Side showed an angry female insect telling her husband "I'm leaving you and taking the grubs with me!" Larson was going to have her say "And I'm taking the maggots with me!" but the publisher said that was too gross. | |
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Monster: Early into his first spotlight episode, Inspector Runge comes home from work to find his wife and daughter standing by the door with their bags packed, waiting for a taxi. He barely notices. | |
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In the Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life if you don't do any farm work or ship anything at all, in the second or third chapter your spouse will eventually start asking you if the farm is doing okay. You can apologize and promise to work harder, or you can give rude and negative answers until your spouse gets fed up and walks out along with your child. Afterwards, Takakura tells you that if you don't like farm work, you should go find something you're more suited to. | |
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Breaking and Entering (2006): When Bea was very young, she and her mother Liv moved from Sweden to England, leaving her father behind. Very little is known about the man. | |
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In One Day at a Time (1975), the mom took the daughters and left her husband. Why? Just because she wanted to prove that she could. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Simon Says", Zoe is involved in a custody battle with her estranged husband Randall over their daughter Hannah. Randall was granted temporary custody and delays the custody hearing three times as he knows that Zoe does not have enough money to keep up the fight. | |
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In Falling Down, Villain Protagonist Bill had a Hair-Trigger Temper that caused his wife to live in fear of him, taking their home and daughter in the divorce and leaving Bill with nothing on top of a restraining order. This in addition to the loss of his job causes him to have a nervous breakdown, as the film revolves around his desperate efforts to reunite with his family escalating into a Going Postal rampage. | |
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Boiler Room revolves around Seth a college dropout that gets hired to work at J.T. Marlin, a brokerage firm that sells worthless stocks to unsuspecting investors. One of Seth's victims invests his family's life savings on a worthless company, and after several heated arguments with his wife, she takes the kids and leaves him alone in their home. Seth regrets his actions, and decides to scam the company and give the guy his money back, right before the Feds come in and arrest everyone. | |
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In Irreconcilable Differences, after Lucy realizes Albert has been cheating on her, she packs her bags and drives away with their daughter Casey. They spend the night in her car. | |
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In the Deep Love adaptation, as a child when Ayu's parents divorced, her mother took her to her new lover and the father never visited her again even though he had shown her nothing but love when he was allowed to see her. | |
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Tár: After Tár finds herself in the middle of a scandal where it's revealed that she abused and groomed several young women she had power over, her wife Sharon leaves her and takes their daughter Petra with her. Petra is the one person Tár loves more than herself, so it hits especially hard to see her begging Sharon not to do this, especially since the film ends before we find out if Tár will ever see her daughter again. | |
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Thora: In the first book, Thora gives a figurine her mother found in a river to her friends Ricky and Lynne Rukle. Their mother sells the figurine and uses the money to move into a new house with Ricky and Lynne, taking them from her husband, whose gambling habit has kept the family in poverty. | |
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On My Name Is Earl, Joy tricks Earl into giving her their old trailer home as well as full custody of the kids when she tricks him into signing divorce papers under the influence of morphine. To be fair, the kids are not biologically Earl's, and Earl is unemployed and technically homeless anyway. Well, one of them isn't. It's later revealed that Earl is the biological father of Dodge, but he and Joy did not know that because they conceived him at a Halloween party while wearing their costumes. At the point of the divorce, Joy thinks his biological father is Li'l Chubby, though she claims it's some random guy she met at a concert. | |
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In The Pursuit of Happyness, which is based on Chris Gardner's Real Life, Gardner's wife, after an argument, leaves while Gardner is away and takes his son with her. Gardner catches up to them at his son's school the next day, and tells his wife in no uncertain terms never to take his son away from him again, regardless of any problems they might have. The wife, who has her own issues, eventually becomes an Absent Parent. At least in the movie. | |
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At one point in The Shield, Mackey's wife leaves with the kids and he doesn't know where they are. Mackey is the hero well, at least we ''think'' he's the hero, so he's still portrayed positively. | |
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At the start of Fishing Vacation, the player character's friend mentions that the last time they spoke to their uncle, he was going through a divorce from his then-wife. Upon arriving at the cabin - where no one seems to have lived in a while - you can find a note on the wall indicating the uncle's wife left him and took their daughter with her. The truth is far worse, as the wife and daughter never got the chance to leave. | |
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In Kaguya-sama: Love Is War it's revealed that when Miyuki Shirogane's mother walked out on the family, she took his little sister Kei with her but left him behind, which seems to be the major reason he feels the need to prove his worth to the world. That said, she eventually goes back to her father and brother by the time of the present day partially because she felt guilty about leaving them behind and partially because she felt uncomfortable sharing a home with her mother's live-in boyfriend. | |
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In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Roy Neary appears to be going crazy over his obsession with UFOs and creating sculptures of mountains, causing his wife and children severe emotional distress. His wife finally takes the kids and leaves him. | |
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In The School for Good Mothers, Frida's parental rights are terminated and she is forbidden to have any contact with her daughter until Harriet turns 18, and only if Harriet seeks her out. She ends up abducting Harriet, fully expecting to get caught but figuring one last chance to spend time with her daughter is worth it. | |
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In The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, when Bruno's mother realizes what it means for her husband to be the commandant of a concentration camp, they spend several days loudly fighting, with Bruno and his sister listening to their screams. Eventually, she decides to spend the remainder of the war at the house of a relative, along her two children. Unfortunately, Bruno decides to sneak into the camp to say goodbye to his friend, gets mistaken for an inmate, and they're thrown together into a gas chamber. | |
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In The Story of Valentine and His Brother, the vagabond Myra marries the aristocrat Richard Ross, but finds life as a Proper Lady unbearable and runs away with their twin sons. | |
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A Cry in the Night: A notable aversion is provided in the backstory; Jenny discovers letters between Caroline and her parents revealing she had decided to leave her husband, but she only had one ticket, implying she intended to leave her son behind with his father. Jenny - who can't imagine ever going away and leaving behind her daughters - wonders why Caroline would do this. It turns out that Erich's disturbing behavior was a big reason why Caroline wanted to leave, as she needed time away from her husband and son to safely come up with a way to help Erich. Jenny plots to leave Erich with her children and return to New York but Erich figures out what she's up to and leaves with the children first. When Jenny manages to get in contact with him and demands he return her daughters, Erich points out they're his daughters as well, as he legally adopted them, and he has the right to take them wherever he wants. |
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In Lost, Susan is able to take Walt from Michael partly because she's the mother and partly because she's the one with the money and the good job. | |
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Liar Liar: At the beginning, Jim Carrey's ex-wife is threatening to take their son and go move with her boyfriend in Boston — something which the lying, immature Carrey doesn't take seriously, and the audience sympathizes with her decision. However, by the end of the movie after Jim Carrey has realized just how important his son is to him, he makes a dramatic effort to stop her- and the audience is hoping he succeeds. Early on in the same movie, Jim Carrey convinces a Gold Digger client through some hilarious Straw Feminist arguments that she deserves a substantial portion of her husband's fortune to strike a blow for women everywhere. This is morphed to a Dude, Not Funny! moment later on when she uses this same argument to justify Taking The Kids — for child support payments, when up to this point she had shown no interest in having custody. |
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Montgomery Gentry's "I'll Keep the Kids" has the narrator telling his wife that she can take whatever she wants, including his favorite shirt that he hopes fits old what's-his-name, but that he'll keep the kids. | |
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Miracle Run: After Corrine breaks up with her boyfriend, she moves to a hotel with Steven and Phillip. | |
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The Fan: The main character's wife taking his only son is one of the main things that drive him to homicidal rage and murder. | |
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In one episode of Malcolm in the Middle, Hal has a cancer scare, and Lois becomes more aggravated than usual, and eventually Malcolm and Reese come to the conclusion that Lois and Hal are getting a divorce. After Hal gets a second opinion that says he does not have cancer, Reese and Malcolm, not being told of what was going on, and with packed bags, tell Lois and Hal that they accept the divorce, and ask Hal how soon can they move in to his new place. Lois, with a mischievous smile, says that they both agreed that should they ever get a divorce, she would get full custody. | |
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Alpha and Omega: In Gabriela's Back Story, her now ex-husband divorced her and took their three-year-old daughter, Heather, having been awarded custody because he worked out of his home and she was a globetrotting journalist. | |
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In The Santa Clause, Tim Allen's character's wife wants full custody of his son now that she's getting married, which is something neither he nor his son want. Of course, it doesn't help that he's slowly turning into Santa Claus, and his wife thinks he's going crazy, going so far as to arrest him when he goes out with his son on the fateful Christmas sleigh ride. It also doesn't help that her new husband is a shrink (and a bit of an ass). | |
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In a recurring bit on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update," Heidi Gardner plays "Angel, the girlfriend from every boxing movie ever." Her main schtick is claiming, emotionally, that if her boyfriend Tommy goes through with that one last fight, it's the last straw, and "I'm takin' the kids to my sister's!" | |
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Young Sheldon: In "A Computer, a Plastic Pony, and a Case of Beer", Mary takes Sheldon and Missy to live at Connie's house in order to prove a point to George. | |
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Without a Trace: Fed up with him always putting his FBI work ahead of his family, Jack's wife, Maria, accepts a job offer in Chicago and takes their daughters, Hannah and Kate, with her, leaving him alone in NYC. | |
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The Light Jar opens with Nate's mum waking him in the middle of the night, hours before her abusive boyfriend is due to get back from a business trip, and telling him to pack so they can go on holiday. They drive off the boyfriend's car. Nate doesn't realize they're not really on holiday until they arrive at the Horrible Housing where Nate's mum says they now live. | |
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In one episode of Criminal Minds, Hotchner took back his decision to transfer to Virginia with his wife and son to a less time consuming job. The episode ends with Hotchner coming home and finding it empty. | |
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Inverted in Jasper in Deadland - Jasper's mother explicitly tells Jasper that she doesn't want to take him with her as she leaves her husband. | |
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In the film Amadeus, when Costanze loses her patience with Wolfgang Mozart's obsession with the hooded stranger, she gives him an ultimatum. When he sneaks out at night and then returns the next morning, he finds all her clothes gone, then discovers that neither she nor their son is in the apartment. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, Vaarsuvius goes crazy with power and terrifies hir mate and their children in the process of saving them from a vengeful dragon. After V saves them and leaves to try and singlehandedly defeat the Big Bad, hir partner sues for divorce and full custody of their children. With V having undergone an enormous My God, What Have I Done? realization in the meantime, shi does not fight the motion, thinking that it is far better for hir now former partner and their children to be safer away from hir adventuring. | |
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In The Spiderwick Chronicles, the mother took the kids and left because her husband was cheating, and one of the kids still idolizes the dad because he was Locked Out of the Loop. | |
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The basic premise of the novel Lola Rose is Nikki fleeing her abusive husband along with their two children. Although Jay had been abusing her for years, she simply put up with it until he hits their daughter; believing he will start beating Jayni as well, she finally decides to leave him to protect them. Jayni is completely fine with it because her dad terrifies her, while her brother Kenny takes a bit more persuading because he's younger and doesn't fully understand what's happening. When Nikki later wonders if she overreacted, Jayni reassures her she did the right thing. | |
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Larger than Life: When Jack was an infant, his mother took him and left his father, an irresponsible clown. She didn't tell him where they were living, so Jack grew up with no contact at all with his father. | |
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In Zero Hour! (1957), Ellen is leaving her husband Ted Stryker with their young son because Ted's Dark and Troubled Past is affecting his ability to be a good role model. | |
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In Squid Game, the protagonist Gi-Hun's ex-wife already took their daughter prior to the start of the series with full custody over his gambling addiction, although he was allowed to see her from time to time despite his wife making it clear she didn't trust him. She got re-married and had another kid. Gi-Hun initially joins the Deadly Game after learning that the stepdad got a new job in America and hoped to use the prize money to get custody. | |
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In The Mask of Zorro, Don Diego's baby Elena is esentially abducted by his arch nemesis Don Rafael, who then raises the girl as his own. He justifies this (in his own mind, at least) by his unrequited love for Diego's wife (apart from this, though, he does at least seem to be a relatively good father to her). | |
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Sela from Star Trek: The Next Generation explains that she was raised on Romulus where her mother (a time-traveling Tasha Yar) was a prisoner of war. One night her mother tried to flee the planet and was taking the girl with her — but Sela was afraid of the idea of leaving her home and raised the alarm. When her mother was executed, Sela says "Everything in me that was human died... all that remains is Romulan!" | |
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