Editing Child abandonment (section)

===In modern media===
Foundlings still appear in modern literature; this is a partial list of examples:
*In [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s stage play ''Major Barbara,'' industrialist Andrew Undershaft, a foundling himself, intently searches for a foundling to assume the family business.
*[[Superman]] may be seen as a continuation of the foundling tradition, the lone survivor of an advanced (but almost-completely extinct) civilization who is found and raised by [[Kansas]] farmers in a pastoral setting, and later discovers his alien origins and uses his powers for good.<ref>Josepha Sherman, ''Once upon a Galaxy,'' p. 55. {{ISBN|0-87483-387-6}}.</ref>
*[[Charlie Chaplin]]'s movie ''[[The Kid (1921 film)|The Kid]]'' revolves about the Tramp's efforts to raise an abandoned child.
*In the graphic novel ''Aqua Leung'', the main protagonist is a prince who is whisked out of a castle under attack in a basket-like device and then found by a couple and raised on land so that his father's enemies do not find him. He returns to the seas to fulfill the prophecy thought to be his father's but that was actually his.
*[[Elora Danan]], in the film ''[[Willow (1988 film)|Willow]],'' and Lir, in the novel ''[[The Last Unicorn]],'' both continue the tradition of foundlings abandoned because of prophecies, and who fulfil the prophecies because of their abandonment. 
*In the last book of ''[[The Chronicles of Prydain]],'' [[Dallben]] reveals to the hero [[Taran (character)|Taran]] that he is a foundling; in a story set in the same world, "The Foundling," Dallben himself proves to be a foundling as well.
*The protagonist Thorby of [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s 1957 novel [[Citizen of the Galaxy]] is a foundling sold as a slave on a remote planet.  He is bought and freed by a beggar who educates and inspires him, then learns from multiple kind foster families.  He later discovers that his parents were killed for opposing slavery in the galactic conglomerate that they owned and that he inherits, and he carries on their work.
*The character [[Leela (Futurama)|Leela]] from ''[[Futurama]]'' was a foundling, given to the Ophanarium and a note in an alien language to make people believe that she was an alien rather than a mutant; she would have been forced, in the latter case, to live in the sewers with the other mutants.
*Several foundlings appear in [[Terry Pratchett|Terry Pratchett's]] ''[[Discworld]]:'' most notably [[Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson]], who was found, as a toddler, among the ruins of a caravan party that had been attacked by bandits, and was then surrounded by the bodies of the adults.
*The character of Mozzie, from ''[[White Collar (TV series)|White Collar]],'' is a foundling, left in a basket with only a [[bear]].
*In some cartoons, wily characters may disguise themselves as foundlings. This may be accomplished by the character dressing as a baby and lying in a bassinet or basket on a doorstep, perhaps with a note adding to the ruse. This was parodied in the 2006 movie ''[[Little Man (2006 film)|Little Man]].''
*In ''[[The Flintstones]],'' [[Bamm-Bamm]] was abandoned on the Rubbles's doorstep and eventually adopted by them.