child neglect
Caregiver's harmful absence
Child neglect is the failure of a parent or caregiver to provide adequate care for a child's basic needs—food, shelter, supervision, medical attention, education, or emotional support.
Unlike abuse, which involves active harm, neglect is harm through omission: The children were removed from the home due to chronic neglect.
Legal definitions vary, but neglect generally requires a pattern of inadequate care rather than isolated lapses.
- maltreatmentCruel or harmful treatment
- abuseCruel or violent treatment
- emotional abuseNon-physical relational harm
- truantUnauthorized school no-show
- left aloneNot interfered with
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- family addictionsubstance abuse, alcoholism, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, addiction recovery
- family tragedyfamilicide, filicide, infanticide, matricide, patricide
- family dynamicsfamily dynamics, family roles, family therapy, sibling rivalry, parenting
- child lawcustody rights, parental rights, legal guardian, guardianship rights, legal guardians
- child welfarefoster care, foster home, protective services, CPS, foster family
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Excessively affectionate toward
helicopter parenting · overparenting · parental involvement · smothering · overprotection
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