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child neglect

n. A form of child abuse caused by the denial of basic requirements like correct nutrition, care, and love.

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child neglect

n. failure of caretakers to provide adequate emotional and physical care for a child

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Child neglect

Child neglect is a form of child abuse, and is a deficit in meeting a child's basic needs, including the failure to provide adequate health care, supervision, clothing, nutrition, housing as well as their physical, emotional, social, educational and safety needs. Society generally believes there are necessary behaviors a caregiver must provide in order for a child to develop physically, socially, and emotionally. Causes of neglect may result from several parenting problems including mental disorders, substance abuse, domestic violence, unemployment, unplanned pregnancy, single parenting, and poverty.

Child neglect depends on how a child and society perceives the parents’ behavior; it is not how parents believe they are behaving towards their child. Parental failure to provide for a child, when options are available, is different from failure to provide when options are not available. Poverty and lack of resources are often contributing factors and can prevent parents from meeting their children's needs, when they otherwise would. The circumstances and intentionality must be examined before defining behavior as neglectful.

Child neglect is the most frequent form of child abuse, with children born to young mothers at a substantial risk for neglect. In 2008, the U.S. state and local Child Protective Services (CPS) received 3.3 million reports of children being abused or neglected. Seventy-one percent of the children were classified as victims of child neglect ("Child Abuse & Neglect"). Maltreated children were about five times more likely to have a first emergency department presentation for suicide related behavior, compared to their peers, in both boys and girls.

Children permanently removed from their parental home because of substantiated child abuse, are also at an increased risk of a first presentation to the emergency department for suicide related behavior. Neglected children are at risk of developing lifelong social, emotional and health problems, particularly if neglected before the age of two years.

Usage examples of "child neglect".

Not after what those parents did to that girl, they should have put them in jail for child neglect, letting her leave like that with a stranger.

Between February 25 and March 31, 1992, they made four arrests for suspicion of narcotics, one for fraud, one for theft, five warrant arrests, two for drinking in public, two for criminal trespass, one for concealed weapon, one DWI, one for obstructing, one reckless endangerment, two for shoplifting, one violation of court order, two for investigation of child neglect, and six for “.

He reminded himself again that this was not intentional child neglect.

The parents won, and the neighbors falsely accused them of child neglect.