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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 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.

* ''[[South Park]]'': The kids manage to get all their parents arrested by claiming they were molested by them. The Department of Child Disservices never shows up, even as ''all'' the adults in South Park are taken away when the kids make further accusations, and apparently the state of Colorado never bothers to care even as the town dissolves into chaos (since the kids aren't capable of taking care of themselves).

* ''[[Family Guy]]'': There was an episode devoted almost entirely to this where Meg took a part time job and milked her customers' sympathy to get bigger tips by claiming to be the unwed mother of a crack baby (with Stewie playing the part of her "son"). One of said customers was a Social Services agent, and interestingly enough, said social worker actually conducted an investigation, though she removed Stewie and had Peter and Lois' parental rights terminated without any actual evidence, or for that matter ''knowing who his actual mother was''.

** This episode is also the source of the page quote, as seen when Peter and Lois go to the Child Services office to try and get Stewie back.

* Subverted in the pilot of ''[[King of the Hill]]'', when a social worker suspects Hank of abusing Bobby under ridiculously circumstantial evidence, but when his supervisor looks over his report he rather quickly dismisses it and ends the investigation.

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