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While the reality (and maybe [[Inherent in The System|idea]]) of the system is far from perfect, [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|please refrain]] from listing [[Real Life]] examples.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* ''[[White Oleander]]'' is built around this trope.
* [[Harry Potter]] lives in a broom cupboard until he's eleven, owns none of his own clothes, and is clearly overworked. He lives in an affluent enough neighborhood and his cousin is treated well enough so no one could find a justification like poverty. And yet, no one ever notices.
** Possibly justified as Dumbledore wanted to keep Harry behind the blood wards and could take steps to make sure no one notices or [[Laser
*** Granted he did ask them to take care of Harry as if he were their own flesh and blood, and acknowledges that they didn't do as he asked in ''Half-Blood Prince.''
*** 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.
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* Dante from ''[[A Rush Of Wings]]'' was deliberately put through this by the [[Government Conspiracy|shadowy government conspiracy of mad science]] for the express purpose of turning him psychopathic. Ironically, he's [[The Messiah|the Messiah]]. Seems the government really can't do anything right...
* Elena's backstory in ''[[Women of the Otherworld|Bitten]]''. Elena was horribly orphaned at five years old, and her mother's best friend volunteered to adopt her. She was rejected because she was single, and Child Services made sure Elena never saw her again, believing in "clean breaks". Instead, Elena spends the rest of her childhood being shuttled from foster home to foster home, in many of which she is sexually abused by her foster fathers and/or brothers.
* In ''[[The Ship Who|The City Who Fought]]'' by [[Anne McCaffrey]] and [[SM Stirling]], the space station's brain wants to adopt a daughter who managed to stow away. Unfortunately, the social services worker assigned to the girl's case proves to be an outright bigot, and denies the application on the grounds that "a shellperson can't possibly raise a child," [[What an Idiot!|apparently in complete ignorance of the Federation's anti-discrimination laws]].
* In ''[[The Millennium Trilogy|Men Who Hate Women]]'', type 1 Social Services assigns the female protagonist [[Dark and Troubled Past|Lisbeth Salander]] under the care of a [[Rape As Drama|rapist]]. Her first legal guardian was/is a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]], though, and it's implied that after he had a stroke they were scrambling to find someone who could take her on very short notice--something that Bjurman took advantage of.
* One of the ''[[Babysitters Club]]'' Mystery Specials was about the girls investigating mysterious events while on a work experience trial at a shopping mall. They eventually discover that three young children are ''living'' in the mall because [[Don't Split Us Up|social services had threatened to separate them]] after their mother had to go into hospital.
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