Before Luo Li-chang met his death in Kaohsiung, for example, both he and his brother Luo Li-chieh had previously been placed in a foster home by the Kaohsiung City Bureau of Social Affairs, but in end the mother acted against the advice of social workers (but within her legal rights) by taking the children back home.
像高雄的「駱力菖事件」，駱力菖、駱立傑兄弟曾由高雄市社會局介入安置寄養，最後卻還是被生母強行帶回，先後遭同居人凌虐致死。