Department of Child Disservices: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'': Satoko, an example which becomes plot-critical in the penultimate arc. The reason they wouldn't help her that time? Satoko had made a call once upon a time that she unfortunately ended up unable to support at the time. In the author's afterward for the arc in the VN, he even apologizes about his portrayal of social services, possibly to avoid breaking the [[An Aesop|aesop]] stated in the previous afterward for Tsumihoroboshi arc that you always need to ask for help rather than resorting to drastic measures.

* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]''. Maria gets beaten IN''in FRONTfront OFof'' welfare officer and she does nothing except occasionally mentioning that it's not the right way to treat your child. (NONo SHITshit, SHERLOCKSherlock.) We don't know what happens immediately afterwards, but apparently after a few years Maria is still with Rosa, and still gets abused.

* The plot of ''[[Witchblade (anime)|Witchblade]]'' anime ultimately springs from the meddling of an aggressive 'Child Welfare Agency', which starts as a bunch of obnoxious bureaucrats and turns out to be {{spoiler|corrupted and infiltrated by a [[squick]]y biotechnological [[Mega Corp]]}}.

* In ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'', the Social Welfare Agency is directly responsible for brainwashing little girls into becoming cyborg assassins, a process which guarantees their early deaths. Then again, considering what most of the girls experienced before entering the program, [[Black and GreyGray Morality|it is arguably still an improvement]].