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* [[Diana Wynne Jones]], as noted below, wrote her nearest thing to an autobiographical novel and called it ''The Time of the Ghost;'' it is about this sort of family. The father is a towering professor known to his children as Himself, who runs a boys' school, where the lead and her three sisters live, and the mother spends all her time keeping the school in order, and all four girls are really ''shockingly'' neglected. Getting food regularly involves raiding the school kitchens and doing their bet to get away with it. Both parents, however, despite fairly limited page time due to their disinterest in their children, are highly realized characters with internal lives of whose shape we get a sense.
* ''[[Dresden Files]]'': Maggie LeFay, having the best intentions, skirted the bounds between white and black magic, falling in with what one might call "the wrong crowd", one of whom {{spoiler|murders her in childbirth}}. Her son inherits one hell of a legacy.
* In the novel version of ''[[The Secret Garden]]'', while Mary parents are of the more classical neglectful variety, the father of Colin is a bit more present, but due to not having processed the [[Death by Childbirth]] of his wife he finds difficult to connect with his son, and passes his own health anxieties on the poor kid to the point that Colin, at ten, hasn't
* The Bennets couple in ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'':
** Mrs. Bennet is unambiguously a shallow airhead who loads her daughters down with bad advice; but when Lizzy tries to call her out on her single-minded matchmaking, she delivers a riposte that reveals her very real fear that she and her daughters will be utterly destitute if they do not marry well.
** Mr. Bennet copes with his ill-matched marriage by finding refuge in his books and sarcasm. He is indifferent to the fact that this exposes his wife to the ridicule of their children, and their family to the ridicule of the world. By the end of the novel, though, he accepts responsibility for his daughter's mistakes and, furthermore, takes measures to instill some sense in his two unmarried daughters.
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