Chapter Five

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Chapter Five

• Neglect

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Definition

• Negligent treatment or maltreatment of a child by
  a parent or caretaker under circumstances
  indicating harm or threatened harm to the childs
  health and welfare.

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Emotional Neglect

• Acts or omissions that are judged by community
  standards and professional expertise to be
  psychologically damaging to a child
• Categories
• Characteristics

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Emotional Neglect

• Both Sally and Bob work nights. Sallys mother
  watches Billy, age two years, at night. After
  they pick up the baby, they are in need of sleep,
  so they put Billy in his room and tie the door
  shut so they can sleep for six or eight hours.

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Emotional Neglect?

• Jill and Howard believe in nudity within the
  home. They also undress their three-year-old
  daughter. They eat, watch TV, and do housework
  undressed.

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Emotional Neglect?

• Liz and Jeff do not believe in corporal
  punishment. Instead of spanking their
  four-year-old son, they tell him that unless he
  is good, they will leave him and the night
  monsters will eat his legs.

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Dirty Homes

• Characteristics
• Causes

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Medical Neglect

• Refusal of a parent or caretaker to obtain
  acceptable medical services for the child
• When can you intervene?
• What about the 1st Amendment?

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Abandonment

• Parental conduct that indicates a conscious
  rejection of the obligations of parenthood
• What happens?

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Children Exposed to Violence

• 3.3 million children exposed to domestic violence
• Reactions

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Children Exposed to Violence

• 9 million have witnessed serious violence
• Research by Edelson
• Children who had observed violence but not a
  victim of it
• Findings
• Boys v. girls
• Factors that determine impact
• Legislative responses