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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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== 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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[[Category:Family Tropes]]
[[Category:Financial Abuse]]
[[Category:Abuse Tropes]]
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