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* ''[[Harry Potter]]'', himself is a victim of this. Surely locking a child in his room and refusing to let him out breaks ''some'' law. For that matter, did Social Services even know where he was, or do Wizards have the power to just stick people with horrible families with no oversight from Muggle government?
** If you saw a sickly little boy who regularly looked like something bigger than a dog had been seriously mauling him, would you try and do something about it? Because if so, it seems that you think differently than any of Lupin's neighbors did when he was growing up. He never mentions this having been a downside of being a werewolf, which makes it a fairly reasonable assumption that nobody responded to what would have looked like some form of abuse from the outside.
*** Lupin's parents were almost certainly wizards, as a Muggle family would neither have much opportunity to be exposed to a werewolf attack (at least, none that left any ''survivors'') nor have the facilities to care for a child inflicted with lycanthropy. Which means they almost certainly raised him in isolation, as his condition would need to be kept secret from the rest of wizarding society.
* In ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', the Baudelaires go through a series of guardians who are either abusive or incompetent, and eventually end up wandering around on their own {{spoiler|as wanted criminals}}. If there is any equivalent of social services in their world, it's too corrupt, [[Adults Are Useless|stupid]], or [[Apathetic Citizens|uncaring]] to do much. This however, is entirely fitting given the way adults are portrayed as universally incompetent or evil (or dead).
* The Bucket family in ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' is dirt-poor to begin with. After Mr Bucket loses his job, things get worse, but no one seems to notice the four starving grandparents confined to a single bed or that Charlie is looking a lot thinner and doesn't have the energy to go outside at recess.
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* In the [[Diamond Brothers]] mystery series, when Nick Diamond's parents move to Australia, he stays behind and moves in with his big brother Tim instead. Tim works as a private detective, but he's so incompetent that they barely have enough money for food, clothing, or roof repairs. Actually, incompetent doesn't cover it; Tim appears at times to be borderline mentally retarded, and though he's a legal adult is clearly unfit to be the sole caretaker of a minor. Their parents are totally oblivious to the situation; they occasionally send cheery postcards from Australia, but rarely send money and never visit.
* Played with by [[Ephraim Kishon]]: They do exist, but the young social worker Eva is clearly overstrained caring for Yemenite refugee Saadya Shabatai, his big family and his antics, and at the end, [[Inverted Trope|he ends up comforting and consulting her.]]
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