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*** And that book also pointed out that, at least in Dumbledore's opinion, the way the Dursleys shamelessly spoiled and indulged their own son Dudley was arguably ''even more'' damaging than the way they neglected Harry.
** Dumbledore sent Mrs. Figg to spy on the Dursleys and report that they were abusing Harry.
*** The problem is that between this and the other exmaples above it is unquestionable that Dumbledore knew what was occurring to Harry, and he ''still didn't do anything''. Ignorance and an excess of trust in the Dursleys might have been some measure of exoneration, but if Dumbledore is fully aware of Harry's horrible circumstances and still takes zero action to try and mitigate them, he's done goofed.
* Most of the plot of ''[[The Tomorrow Series|Circle of Flight]]'' is Ellie fighting to regain custody of Gavin after he is removed because there is dog faeces on their lawn, his bedroom is untidy and their dog is sleeping in there, and there is too much soft drink and too little milk in their refrigerator.
* ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' uses this trope quite frequently with Mr. Poe, who places the Baudelaire orphans in one abusive home after another for the first seven books (with the exception being book 2).
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* In ''The Godmother'' by Elizabeth Anne Scarborough, Rose Samson, an idealistic social worker, is frustrated by the increasingly illogical regulations she has to deal with in Social Services, until she is aided by a professional [[Fairy Godmother|Godmother]]. [[It Gets Worse|It's worse than she thinks]]; {{spoiler|the policies are put in place by a board of [[Corrupt Politician|evil city councilmen]] to insure that more children either run away from home or are lost in the system, so they can become easy prey for [[Complete Monster|the pedo-ring they set up]]!}}
* One episode of ''[[Person of Interest]]'' involved a social worker framing ex-cons with children for various crimes so that he could take the children away as part of an embezzlement scheme.
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