Back when we were applying for secondary places for our respective DDs, a colleague and I joked about having them taken into care, in order to move them into pole position for their favoured comprehensive school, should they flunk the 11+. (Note: DD did. She was allocated a school the other side of the borough that we hadn't even considered. She was fine. At no point during her year there did the words,
If only we'd put you up for adoption, the fact that this year we were too far away from our catchment school for you to get a place would have been irrelevant never crossed my lips

).
One hopes this is a case of,
Only in America 
:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/guardianship-surrendering-parents-divide-us-university-leaders?utm_source=THE+Website+Users&utm_campaign=50adc04000-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_01_02_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_daa7e51487-50adc04000-66200765 The case of US parents surrendering guardianship of their children to help them afford university is revealing high-level fault lines within academia over blame and duty in the country’s growing student debt crisis.
The situation involves at least two dozen instances in which parents in the Chicago area signed over guardianship of their teenagers to a friend or relative, legally cutting financial ties so the students would become eligible for federal, state and university aid and scholarships.