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* ''The Stranger In Our Home'' by Sophie Draper provides a truly tragic example of this. [[spoiler:The protagonist, Caroline, is born as the result of an affair between her father and a younger woman who died in childbirth. Her father took custody of her, but his wife, Elizabeth, despised her (despite not being shown to have any ill will to her husband, who had the affair), and always punished her for being bullied by Danny, her older half brother, after her father died when she was three. After an eight-year-old Danny, while bullying her, was accidentally killed when she stood up for herself (at age six), it caused a mental block in which she couldn't remember anything before that. Since due to her condition, she couldn't be legally punished, Elizabeth spent the rest of Caroline's life until she moved away making her miserable, and not letting her know why.]]

* ''The Stranger In Our Home'' by Sophie Draper provides a truly tragic example of this. [[spoiler:The protagonist, Caroline, is born as the result of an affair between her father and a younger woman who died in childbirth. Her father took custody of her, but her stepmother, Elizabeth, despised her (despite not being shown to have any ill will to her husband, who had the affair), and always punished her for being bullied by Danny, her older half brother, after her father died when she was three. After an eight-year-old Danny, while bullying her, was accidentally killed when she stood up for herself (at age six), it caused a mental block in which she couldn't remember anything before that. Since due to her condition, she couldn't be legally punished, Elizabeth spent the rest of Caroline's life until she moved away making her miserable, and not letting her know why.]]

* "The Stranger In Our Home" by Sophie Draper provides a truly tragic example of this. [[spoiler:The protagonist, Caroline, is born as the result of an affair between her father and a younger woman who died in childbirth. Her father took custody of her, but her stepmother, Elizabeth, despised her (despite not being shown to have any ill will to her husband, who had the affair), and always punished her for being bullied by Danny, her older half brother, after her father died when she was three. After an eight-year-old Danny, while bullying her, was accidentally killed when she stood up for herself (at age six), it caused a mental block in which she couldn't remember anything before that. Since due to her condition, she couldn't be legally punished, Elizabeth spent the rest of Caroline's life until she moved away making her miserable, and not letting her know why.]]

* "Literature/TheStrangerInOurHome"

* Sadly TruthInTelevision. In far more conservative/religious cultures, having children out of wedlock is seen as irresponsible or shameless. Doesn't help matters when the extended family "picks sides" over the mother or the father. And in more traditional/patriarchal societies, the man's guilt is usually downplayed compared to how villainized the woman is if she committed the affair. No matter what, though, the children are still blamed, humiliated, ostracized, and abused.

* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' comic ''[[Comicbook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch The Search]]''. It's revealed that sometime before her disappearance, Ursa told Ozai that Zuko was the result of an affair she had, leading the gang to believe that Ozai's cruelty to Zuko throughout his childhood was because of this. The ending reveals that Zuko really is Ozai's son; Ursa was sick of his abuse and control over her and Zuko, and knew that he always intercepted her mail, so fabricated the lie in hopes that he'd be hurt by such a revelation. Not only did it not work, but Ozai ''[[GoneHorriblyWrong doubled down]]'' on the abuse as punishment for even attempting such a deception.

* ''Franchise/TheFlash'': George Harkness, the first Captain Boomerang, had a frosty relationship with his father who always treated him badly, which he blamed for his {{Jerkass}} behavior. At his mother's funeral, Harkness' father reveals he was actually the result of his mother cheating on him, and that's why he never liked him. Harkness proceeds to decapitate his "father" over the reveal.
* This is why Laurie/Silk Spectre II from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} '' had a bad relationship with the man that was legally her father. She always knew that he wasn't her biological father because he never let her forget it.

* Subverted in ''Film/{{Creed|2015}}'', Adonis is Apollo Creed's illegitimate son from an affair. When Apollo's widow, Mary Anne, finds out about him and learns that his mother is dead and Adonis is at the start of a downwards spiral through foster care and the juvenile detention system, she takes it upon herself to adopt and raise him.

* ''Series/Charmed1998'': [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with fourth sister Paige who is introduced as the result of Patty Halliwell's affair with her [[GuardianAngel Whitelighter]]. Victor, who is father to the other Halliwell sisters, never shows any resenment towards her and is every bit as protective of her as he is of his own daughters. Paige actually seems to be closer to him than she is to her biological father who's [[DisappearedDad not very reliable about being present for her]].