Classmate wa Isekai de Yuusha ni Natta kedo, Ore dake Gendai Nihon ni Okizari ni Narimashita - Vol. 1 Ch. 4.2

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I am actually pretty invested in how the MC is going to resolve this issue -- because I feel like the author won't pull something stupid and cheap, like: "Make the boyfriend / mother disappear"...I don't think that'd actually help them much...
I'm half-expecting something like brainwashing magic or some shit, but that's pretty top-shelf, deus-ex-machina level shit.

I swear to god the more mangas and Korean mangas i read the more i think this part of the world must have the shitiest Child Protection Service of the developed world, maybe where i live is overprotective but CPS has been called for less than that.
I think it's more that it's....Complicated...
Even if we assume the victim, a teenager (not a toddler or a child), is fully aware there are social services that can theoretically help them -- I feel like people in that position are more afraid of the immediate harm that can come to them, or their loved ones, in case their abuser decides to "retaliate" for being called social services on them.
I mean, I don't even think once contact is made with the family, that the kids are immediately whisked away...
So, yeah, Kana might be actually afraid her mother's boyfriend or whatever will fuck her up as punishment, even if it'd make her life better in the long run.
People in these situations can have really narrow, fucked up world-views that limit their options as a result.
(No experience with this shit, I'm making assumptions)
 
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I can't speak to the social safety net in Japan vs the US, but I know that calling CPS in the States is often like exiting the frying pan for the fire. It removes you from the immediate threat (poverty, negligence, drug abuse, physical abuse, what have you) but it offers little reward on the other side. If Kana was American, she and her siblings would get put into the foster care system, possibly separated. And that's ignoring the corruption of CPS in the US, which is often used not against abusive households but to criminalize poor honest people doing their best in a shit economy. CPS is often linked to child-trafficking and mass incarceration. Both of these are problems of owners trying to get criminally cheap labor.
 
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I think it's more that it's....Complicated...
Even if we assume the victim, a teenager (not a toddler or a child), is fully aware there are social services that can theoretically help them -- I feel like people in that position are more afraid of the immediate harm that can come to them, or their loved ones, in case their abuser decides to "retaliate" for being called social services on them.
I mean, I don't even think once contact is made with the family, that the kids are immediately whisked away...
So, yeah, Kana might be actually afraid her mother's boyfriend or whatever will fuck her up as punishment, even if it'd make her life better in the long run.
People in these situations can have really narrow, fucked up world-views that limit their options as a result.
(No experience with this shit, I'm making assumptions)
I know, i know the problem i have is that in those comics CPS is never even considered as an actual option even as the final nuclear one.
 
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I swear to god the more mangas and Korean mangas i read the more i think this part of the world must have the shitiest Child Protection Service of the developed world, maybe where i live is overprotective but CPS has been called for less than that.
I have no idea about the child protection systems over there, but on the other hand, these kinds of series wouldn't work if it existed. Just like school delinquent fighting manga couldn't work if police existed in Japan. Well, we know police does exist, it's overly eager and everywhere in Japan, so it's just the fighting manga that removed it entirely for the sake of the plot. It's possible child protection exists as well, but this kind of manga needs to pretend it doesn't exist.
 
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I swear to god the more mangas and Korean mangas i read the more i think this part of the world must have the shitiest Child Protection Service of the developed world, maybe where i live is overprotective but CPS has been called for less than that.
I don't know where you live. But it's pretty fucking bad in the US, I had grown ups who cared for me and were willing to fight for me but there are plenty of cases where there is no help. In fact the "parents' rights" advocates who constantly loosen restrictions for home schooling make it easy for abusers to just pull their kid out of school so that no one can detect the abuse. My aunt regularly abused and neglected my cousins, and my Grandmother and Grandfather abused my aunts and mother. Cases like the girl depicted aren't perfectly realistic l.
 
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I swear to god the more mangas and Korean mangas i read the more i think this part of the world must have the shitiest Child Protection Service of the developed world, maybe where i live is overprotective but CPS has been called for less than that.
Japan has Child Consultation Centers. Reporting suspicions of child abuse seems mandatory. But the social workers don't really have the means to do anything. Consultations don't really make abusive parents better at anything other than hiding the abuse.
 

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