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* Played straight in Creator/TanithLee's Snow White adaptation ''Literature/WhiteAsSnow'' where the princess' mother, not her stepmother, is trying to kill her.
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* In ''Literature/WhereAreTheChildren'', Nancy was accused and initially found guilty of murdering her children, though she insists she never hurt them and the reader is made aware someone else was responsible. It turns out that the children's ''father'' killed them and set Nancy up, to prevent any of them from revealing he was [[AbusiveParents abusing the children]].
* Played straight in Creator/TanithLee's Snow White adaptation ''Literature/WhiteAsSnow'' where the princess' mother, not her stepmother, is trying to kill her.
* Played straight in Creator/TanithLee's Snow White adaptation ''Literature/WhiteAsSnow'' where the princess' mother, not her stepmother, is trying to kill her.
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* In ''Literature/BekaCooper'', Beka interviews a woman who killed her child to keep a man who didn't want kids, then claimed the local boogeyman/serial killer had done it.
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* As is common with dogs, the protagonist's mother in ''Literature/ADogsLife'' abandoned a deformed puppy soon after it was born.
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* As is common with dogs, the protagonist's Squirrel's mother in ''Literature/ADogsLife'' abandoned a deformed puppy soon after it he was born.born.
* The accidental kind happens in ''Literature/DontLookBack''. [[spoiler:Steven pushed his illegitimate daughter Cassie away while they were arguing, causing her to fall on the rocks nearby and fatally hit her head. Sam, her half-sister, saw this and slipped on the blood on said rocks when trying to run to her aid. Her subsequent fall led to her losing her memory, starting the plot.]]
* The accidental kind happens in ''Literature/DontLookBack''. [[spoiler:Steven pushed his illegitimate daughter Cassie away while they were arguing, causing her to fall on the rocks nearby and fatally hit her head. Sam, her half-sister, saw this and slipped on the blood on said rocks when trying to run to her aid. Her subsequent fall led to her losing her memory, starting the plot.]]
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* In Selma Lagerlof's ''Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!'', [[spoiler: main character David's much-abused wife, having crossed the DespairEventHorizon due to all the DomesticAbuse, decides to kill their children and then herself in Christmas's Eve. David, who has been subjected to a huge BreakTheHaughty that included his own temporary death, manages to prove her that he ''has'' changed for the best, so she changes her mind]].
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* In Selma Lagerlof's ''Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!'', ''Literature/ThySoulShallBearWitness'', [[spoiler: main character David's much-abused wife, having crossed the DespairEventHorizon due to all the DomesticAbuse, decides to kill their children and then herself in Christmas's Eve. David, who has been subjected to a huge BreakTheHaughty that included his own temporary death, manages to prove her that he ''has'' changed for the best, so she changes her mind]].
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* A heartbreaking example in ''The Unconquered'' by Creator/WSomersetMaugham. Annette drowns her ChildByRape on the same day he is born, since she wants his Nazi father, who has grown to love his future son, to feel at least some of the pain she has been put through. She has also grown attached to her son, so she kills him as early as possible because she's afraid she won't have the heart to do it later, and breaks down sobbing after it's done.
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* A heartbreaking example in ''The Unconquered'' ''Literature/TheUnconquered'' by Creator/WSomersetMaugham. Annette drowns her ChildByRape on the same day he is born, since she wants his Nazi father, who has grown to love his future son, to feel at least some of the pain she has been put through. She has also grown attached to her son, so she kills him as early as possible because she's afraid she won't have the heart to do it later, and breaks down sobbing after it's done.
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* Averted in ''The Watcher'' by James Howe (of ''Literature/{{Bunnicula}}'' fame). [[spoiler: The title character, whose real name is Margaret, lives with a violently abusive father and a passive, fearful mother. Her father tries to kill her by drowning her in the kitchen sink, but the two other main characters rescue her and then her mother turns on her father at last.]]
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* Averted in ''The Watcher'' ''Literature/TheWatcher'' by James Howe (of ''Literature/{{Bunnicula}}'' fame). [[spoiler: The title character, whose real name is Margaret, lives with a violently abusive father and a passive, fearful mother. Her father tries to kill her by drowning her in the kitchen sink, but the two other main characters rescue her and then her mother turns on her father at last.]]
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* The YA novel ''The Grounding of Group 6'' concerns a school that offers parents the service of quietly... disposing of their unwanted offspring.
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* The YA novel ''The Grounding of Group 6'' ''Literature/TheGroundingOfGroup6'' concerns a school that offers parents the service of quietly... disposing of their unwanted offspring.
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** In one of Shallan's flashbacks, we see her father beating his son Balat with a fireplace poker, which is why Balat needs a cane in ''Literature/TheWayOfKings''. Her father would have killed him, if [[spoiler:Shallan hadn't poisoned her father, then strangled him with a necklace when that failed to finish him off]].
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** In one of Shallan's flashbacks, we see her father beating his son Balat with a fireplace poker, which is why Balat needs a cane in ''Literature/TheWayOfKings''.''Literature/TheWayOfKings2010''. Her father would have killed him, if [[spoiler:Shallan hadn't poisoned her father, then strangled him with a necklace when that failed to finish him off]].
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* ''Literature/SweetAndBitterMagic'': Vera broke the bond which Tamsin had with Marlena as it had caused awful side effects. Tamsin created it to keep Marlena alive, with her dying once this happens. It turns out Tamsin and Marlena are her daughters. It's then {{subverted}} however as Marlena survived.
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** Turns out to have happened to Oreg, a bastard son who was poisoned by his father in order to transform him into a GenuisLoci [[PoweredByAForsakenChild powering Castle Hurog]]. [[spoiler:Though it's eventually revealed he wasn't completely dead.]]
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** Turns out to have happened to Oreg, a bastard son who was poisoned by his father in order to transform him into a GenuisLoci GeniusLoci [[PoweredByAForsakenChild powering Castle Hurog]]. [[spoiler:Though it's eventually revealed he wasn't completely dead.]]
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* In the ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'' duology, Ward thinks about how he will inherit Hurog - if he manages to not be killed by his father beforehand. The father is shown to be an extremely violent man, so that is a very realistic fear. It is implied that there have been cases of this in their family before.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'' duology, Ward thinks about how he will inherit Hurog - if he manages to not be killed by his father beforehand. The father is shown to be an extremely violent man, so that is a very realistic fear. It is implied that there have been cases of this in their family before. before.
** Turns out to have happened to Oreg, a bastard son who was poisoned by his father in order to transform him into a GenuisLoci [[PoweredByAForsakenChild powering Castle Hurog]]. [[spoiler:Though it's eventually revealed he wasn't completely dead.]]
** Turns out to have happened to Oreg, a bastard son who was poisoned by his father in order to transform him into a GenuisLoci [[PoweredByAForsakenChild powering Castle Hurog]]. [[spoiler:Though it's eventually revealed he wasn't completely dead.]]
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** Moreover, Drow consider the killing of physically imperfect offspring to be their duty. Because they ''so'' proud and love beauty. So it's a case of "demerits as an extension of merits". Drizzt's purple eyes nearly got him killed for this reason until his family confirmed that they weren't a sign of blindness.
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** Moreover, Drow consider the killing of physically imperfect offspring to be their duty. Because duty, because they are ''so'' proud and love beauty. So it's a case of "demerits as an extension of merits". Drizzt's purple eyes nearly got him killed for this reason until his family confirmed that they weren't a sign of blindness.
