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There are several possible ways this scenario can work. In some stories, the real parent of the child (almost always a single mother) is still alive, but can not take care of the child herself, so she makes her own arrangments to have a family take care of the child while she sends them her own money to assist in raising the child.
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* Taken to evil, and all too real, extremes in [[Slumdog Millionaire]].
* In the movie ''[[Hotel For Dogs]],'' near the end of the film, the brother gets shipped off to one of these... and is miserably unhappy.
* There's a family like this in Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's "not quite a remake of ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]''" movie, ''It Takes Two''.
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The episode "Children of the Dark" of ''[[
* The French-Canadian series ''Les Bougons'' featured one of these, on a farm no less. The parents refer to the kids as numbers, and one of the kids notes that this kind of foster home ain't so bad since "Here you don't need to sleep with the old man for food at least."''
* Shows up in a few ''[[Law
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Seen in ''[[
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* Parodied in the third episode of ''[[
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