Parental Abandonment/Quotes

Scrooge: I'm not used to relatives either. The few I had seem to have... disappeared.

Huey, Dewey and Louie: We know how that feels, Unca Scrooge.

—The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

Kitty: Eric, I'm sure she's not abandoning Steven. She's his mother!

Eric: Mom, her exact words were "I know I'm your mother, but I'm abandoning you Steven."

—That '70s Show

"Okay, basically, my parents abandoned me, I was being raised by ocelots."

—Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb

Father left home, poor mother died
Leaving Susie alone
Grandfather's soul too had flown...

No one to care...
—Michael Jackson, "Little Susie"

Natsuru: Oh, of course. The missing parents. What is it this time? Dead? Fugitives?
Shizuku: Diplomats.

Natsuru: Oh, okay.

—Kämpfer Abridged