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What is child neglect primarily characterized by?
What is child neglect primarily characterized by?
Which type of neglect involves leaving a child alone for extended periods without supervision?
Which type of neglect involves leaving a child alone for extended periods without supervision?
What is the result when a child's basic medical needs are not met?
What is the result when a child's basic medical needs are not met?
How does child neglect differ from child abuse?
How does child neglect differ from child abuse?
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What type of neglect involves failing to protect a child from preventable diseases?
What type of neglect involves failing to protect a child from preventable diseases?
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Which aspect of a child's development is neglected if they are not provided with regular and nutritious meals?
Which aspect of a child's development is neglected if they are not provided with regular and nutritious meals?
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What does educational neglect refer to?
What does educational neglect refer to?
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Which type of neglect involves not knowing or caring about the child's whereabouts until late at night?
Which type of neglect involves not knowing or caring about the child's whereabouts until late at night?
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Why is neglect considered harmful to a child's health and development?
Why is neglect considered harmful to a child's health and development?
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What is an example of emotional neglect?
What is an example of emotional neglect?
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Study Notes
Types of Child Neglect
- Educational Neglect: permitting truancy, failure to send a child to school, or enroll them in school, and inattention to special educational needs
- Emotional Neglect: showing insufficient attention and affection to the child, allowing them to witness domestic violence, and allowing them to use alcohol and/or drugs
- Emotional Neglect: supporting or allowing maladaptive behavior, such as delinquency or excessive aggression, and preventing or delaying professional psychological support
Indicators of Neglect
- Lack of adequate medical or dental care
- Chronic sleepiness or hunger
- Poor personal hygiene, dirty clothing, and inadequate dress for weather conditions
- Evidence of poor supervision, leaving the child alone in the home or unsupervised
- Conditions in the home that constitute a health hazard, fire hazards, or other unsafe conditions
- Inadequate sleeping arrangements
- Poor nutritional quality of food in the home
- Spoiled food in the refrigerator or cupboards
- The child begs or steals food or money
- The child is frequently absent from school
Risk Factors of Child Neglect
- Inadequate socioeconomic conditions
- Lack of social support or social isolation
- Caregivers' past experience of violence
- Caregivers' addiction
- Insufficient knowledge of caregivers about child development
- Caregivers becoming parents at a very young age
- Beliefs that support or condone violent practices
- Child living with a single parent
- Domestic violence
- High daily stress level in the family
Effects of Neglect
- Feeling of loneliness and vulnerability
- Health problems that can lead to death
- Developmental delay
- Learning disabilities
- Behavioral problems
- Difficulty with social relationships
Child Abuse
- Knowingly or unknowingly negatively affecting the child's health, physical, and psychological development
- Types of Abuse: Physical, Emotional, Economic, Sexual, and Media Abuse
- Physical Abuse: any act by a caregiver that results in non-accidental physical injury to a child
- Physical Abuse: hitting, slapping, punching, kicking, burning, biting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, and breaking bones
Child Neglect and Abuse
- Convention on the Rights of the Child: everyone is considered a child until they turn 18
- Child Neglect: failure to provide for the development of the child in all spheres, causing harm to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral, or social development
- Child Neglect: failure to properly supervise and protect children from harm as much as is feasible (WHO)
Types of Child Neglect
- Physical Neglect: failure to meet the child's basic medical needs, failure to protect the child from preventable diseases, and failure to seek immediate and necessary medical help
- Physical Neglect: leaving the child alone for long periods without adult supervision, not knowing or caring about the child's whereabouts, and failure to provide regular and nutritious meals and clean/adequate clothing
- Educational Neglect: the child's developmental and educational needs are not consistently met
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Test your knowledge on the different types of child neglect, such as educational neglect and emotional neglect. Learn about the signs and consequences of neglectful behavior towards children.
