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* Mindy's mother in ''[[Animaniacs]]'' leaves her toddler in a harness attached to a tree and expects her dog, Buttons, to watch over her time and time again; she's otherwise unsupervised. Naturally, [[Badly-Battered Babysitter|Buttons]] is the primary reason Mindy remains ''alive''. Lampshaded when Mindy's mother leaves Mindy alone to go to a "better parenting conference".
** Averted in a Slappy Squirrel cartoon where Slappy has gone insane and Skippy is removed from her custody.
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' is pretty bad - Arnold's grandmother and grandfather are incredibly weird, but Social Services never check up - although in the movie, his grandfather mentions that if they did step in, he and grandma would go into a nursing home and Arnold would go to a foster home (potentially because of their weirdness). However, Arnold really isn't that bad, given that his grandparents can care for him. Helga, meanwhile, is probably worse, given that her dad is mentally abusive (about as close to [[Abusive Parents]] as you can get while still being kid-friendly) and her mom is an alcoholic, constantly depressed and unaware of her surroundings, has no drivers license and falls asleep in weird places after making "smoothies".
** When Helga goes in for counseling, Bob and Miriam lecture her and tell her not to blab anything because they can all be put in the nuthouse, implying that Social Services does indeed exist. Potentially, [[Fridge Brilliance|Miriam told Helga that she was just making "Smoothies" so that people wouldn't find anything wrong if she mentioned it in school]].
** Plus, Stoop Kid. A kid who has apparently ''never'' left his stoop and appears to be in his teens. He's well known around the neighbourhood...why didn't nobody call CPS? If there's anyone who needed CPS the most in this series, it's Stoop Kid. Helga may have [[Abusive Parents]] and Arnold may have [[Parental Abandonment]], but Helga at ''least'' has access to food (most of the time) and Arnold at least has grandparents who love him very much and are able to provide for him.
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