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** Jon Snow is treated this way by Catelyn Stark. Although he is actually Ned Stark's bastard son, Ned treats him like all of his children. Catelyn, on the other hand, treats him coldly and at one point wishes to his face that a near-fatal accident had happened to him rather than to one of her own children.
*** {{spoiler|Made more ironic by the fact that there's a significant chance that Jon isn't actually Ned's bastard at all, but was placed under his protection and the ruse was designed to hide his true heritage. At least some portion of the readership assumes Jon may in fact be the child of Ned's sister Lyanna and Prince Rhaegar (which would make Jon <s>a rightful heir to the kingdom</s> Rhaegar and Lyanna's bastard).}}
*** The ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' TV series apparently felt that Catelyn's constant [[Kick the Dog|kicking the direwolf]] made her too unsympathetic. Whereas in the novels, Catelyn's hatred of Jon endures long after he leaves to join the Night's Watch, to the point that she loathes ''all people born out of wedlock because they remind her of him'', in the series Catelyn repents of her treatment of him, berating herself for "being unable to love a motherless child".
** Also, Samwell Tarlly to his father Lord Tarlly.
* [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Circle of Magic]]'' series had Tris. She was disowned and disposed of by her parents, who sent her to live with various relatives who used her as a live-in servant while constantly berating and bullying her. Particularly strange was that she seems to have been an only child—it was when she was moved away from her own parents that she encountered a "sibling rivalry" situation (her cousins, who got [[Parental Favoritism|preferential treatment]] from their parents—Tris' aunts and uncles).
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