History ParentalAbandonment / Literature

* ''Literature/FairestOfAll'': Mahon's parents, believing him to be a faerie changeling, leave him in the forest and tell him to never come back. He sits and stares at the leaves until he's discovered by an actual faerie queen, who takes him as her slave.

* Bobby's family disappears in the first ''Literature/{{Pendragon}}'' book, and the only explanation given by Bobby's new father-figure, Uncle Press, is that Bobby will see them again. The other Travelers with mentioned parents were raised by the generation of Travelers before them, who generally die somewhere in the series. An exception is Spader's mother, who disappears the same way Bobby's family did. [[spoiler: Uncle Press]] kicks the bucket in ''The Lost City of Faar''. [[spoiler: However, he does come back in the last chapter of ''Raven Rise''.]] Also in ''Raven Rise'', [[spoiler: several of the Travelers, who Bobby thinks of as his brothers or family, die. And then come back at the end magically along with Press. Mark and Courtney are assumed dead, though they turn out to be alive in the final book.]]

* In ''Literature/KingdomKeepers'', Maybeck lives with his aunt Jelly. When Finn questions him on where his parents are, he only responds that they "aren't around," prompting Finn to drop the issue.

* ''Literature/TheBridgeOfClay'': The Dumbar brothers. Their mother dies and their father abandons them, so they have to manage on their own, even though the oldest [[CharacterNarrator Matthew]] is barely 18.