Sasha Yeah, I joked sometimes that I was not parented at all. My parents have careers, societal responsibilities, and well, whatever resources they allocated to parenting, the others which were brats on steroids consumed.
Which leads to as @Andrew nicely put to interesting pathological situations.
And while it @Laura is right too, families tend not to harm members intentionally. Usually. BUT there is a big catch here:
Do you think Eden's family thought they have harmed Eden? They only did it to help him become "normal".
(Besides, being female is in Saudi culture inferior, so why would a male want to be a female?)
Families might have quite convoluted values, beliefs, traditions.
I literally had one, that refused a daughter needed and relatively easy (as a small kid) surgery, because they took it as a sign of God (or whatever, hard to grasp the thinking of some of these people), leading to their daughter being hampered when walking, and dangerous surgery as an adult to help the situation (if not fix, a bit late for this, the whole bone system has developed wrongly). So yes, familial beliefs can lead indirectly to physical harm too.
Take on the other hand, that recommendations on parenting, well potentially even on "healthy eating", can and do vary by the decade and country/state. (Laws do also change, but what is even more of a trap, enforcement of laws can dramatically change over time too.)
We literally have generations of adults still around that learned, masturbation is bad (Why? well, because). Got news for you, there are still places, even in the so-called civilized West, where this is more or less taught to kids/young adults.
My observation was only, that in "better-off families", it's often even harder to get out of reach of the family (for many reasons, including that alarming the authorities will not work and/or is a very unattractive option in many ways), so I've seen purely in my limited circle of acquaintances so rather fascinating (like watching the Texas Chainsaw Massacre) menu of pathologies. To use that nicely sounding, educated word.