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This can also exist in a separate form, by withholding support unless they obey all of the parent's wishes, no matter how cruel or unreasonable, without complaint. Abuse is about control, and this is controlling them through money. Bonus points if the parents are foster parents, and keep the kids around for the welfare check.
Very much [[Truth in Television]], and enters the media spotlight regularly when one or both parents of a rising young music or acting star exploit their child's achievements. This is the reason for the Jackie Coogan Act, named after the [[Former Child
Another form can exist, which is a subtrope of [[Domestic Abuse]] and emotional abuse. In it, a spouse or significant other uses finances to control and abuse their partner, to keep them dependent on themselves or to make them unable to leave, or simply to profit off of them. In this form, outright identity theft and fraud are sadly true - the abuser helps himself or herself to the victim's purse, wallet, bank account, name, credit line, or more. In this form, both victim and abuser are a romantic couple rather than parent/child, but the dynamic is similar.
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{{examples}}
== Advertisement ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnzminW4zeU&feature=related A Skittles commercial features a young man with a Skittles tree growing out of his chest. He wants to see "the specialist", presumably to get it removed, and go to college, but his mother won't let him.]
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== Film ==
* The teenaged girl Babydoll was put in a mental institution at the start of ''[[Sucker Punch]]'' by her stepfather, who wanted the girl's large inheritance.
* A scam in The Glass House (2001) also counts. {{spoiler|Ruby and Rhett, the two protagonists, were adopted by friends of their dead parents, Erin and Terry... only to [[Offing the Offspring|be targetted for death]] so the "new parents" can collect their huge inheritance money. (Not to mention [[Parental Incest|Terry makes passes at Ruby]], who's [[
* Jimmy MacElroy's father in ''[[Blades of Glory]]'' adopts talented orphans. He unadopts him after he's banned from competition.
* A variant occurs in [[Taking Woodstock]]. Elliot's mother is constantly nagging him to the point of emotional abuse to put his savings and time into her failing motel. This is despite the fact that {{spoiler|she has close to $97,000 hidden in the floorboards which she refuses to share with anyone or invest in her own business}}
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** An episode of the original series had parents that took their son to a celebrity's (a different not-Michael Jackson) party so he could molest him in return for a large amount of money. They did it for the sake of their youngest son who was ill, but when the oldest son learned that the money wasn't hush money given ''after'' the molestation but ''before'', he testified against them.
* In one episode of ''[[Married... with Children]]'', Al and Peggy did this to Bud by accident, thinking the money in the bank account was a banking error in their favor.
* The second version happens to Eliot in ''[[Scrubs]]''
* A scheme to embezzle money from Child Services using this trope was center to the plot of an episode of ''[[Person of Interest]]''.
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[[Category:Family Tropes]]
[[Category:Financial Abuse]]
[[Category:Abuse Tropes]]
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