Types of Child Neglect Quiz

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