# Pick Your Adoptive Parents **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 17, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-adoptive-parents/641327 "2012-11-17T17:33:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-adoptive-parents/641327/1 "2012-11-17T17:33:59Z")
I am certain most of us are/were quite happy with the parents we got, but assuming you were a baby and could pick anyone - alive or dead, real or fictional - as your adoptive parents, who would you choose? Would you go for money? Bill and Melinda Gates? Fame? Bogart and Bacall? Both? Queen Elizabeth and Phil? Fiction? A nice Hobbit family from the Shire? Historical? Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt? Who would you choose? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-adoptive-parents/641327/2 "2012-11-17T17:44:46Z")
Gomez and Morticia Addams. They are rich, cool, and very tolerant. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-adoptive-parents/641327/3 "2012-11-17T20:06:43Z")
Amelia Pond and Rory Williams. I’d get to travel though time and space with the Doctor 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-adoptive-parents/641327/4 "2012-11-18T03:34:37Z")
Fictional fame and money: Aral and Cordelia Vorkosigan. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-adoptive-parents/641327/5 "2012-11-18T03:53:17Z")
Fictional: Coach and Tami Taylor from\* Friday Night Lights.\* Real: Barack and Michelle Obama (although I could probably do without the Secret Service following my ass everywhere) ---
**Author:** ![I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Made_French_Toast_For_You)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-adoptive-parents/641327/6 "2012-11-18T04:14:34Z")
Real: Beyonce and Jay-Z (with whom I’d form some sort of Partridge Family-esque musical supergroup). Fictional: Dan and Roseanne Conner (with whom I’d feel most at home). ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-adoptive-parents/641327/7 "2012-11-18T11:49:07Z")
Johnny Depp & Winona Ryder - looks, money, talent, a private island, two Christmases! ---
**Author:** ![FlyByNight512](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@FlyByNight512](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyByNight512)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-adoptive-parents/641327/8 "2012-11-18T18:31:44Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Fictional fame and money: Aral and Cordelia Vorkosigan. Hell yes. Mostly because they are awesome, awesome people. There’s also a number of Lord of the Rings couples who probably made very good parents. Er, and I’ve always wanted to be an elf or half-elf. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-adoptive-parents/641327/9 "2012-11-18T19:23:44Z")
Fictional: Atticus Finch, just too feel so solidly loved. Real: Gates, lots of cash, but they seem to have good, solid values as people. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-adoptive-parents/641327/10 "2012-11-18T19:52:56Z")
Real: Andrew Lloyd Webber. Tons of cash and theatre connections Fictional: Rhett Butler: Cash ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-adoptive-parents/641327/11 "2012-11-18T20:58:36Z")
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson). They understood the power and importance of love and commitment, no matter the cost.