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Neglectful Parenting Case Study

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Discussion #4
You have been assigned to a case to review.
You learn that the father had custody of the children and the mother in incarcerated for mistreating her three small elementary age children.
What do you look for as signs of distress? The parenting style will be the first sign, there for this family will display signs of neglectful parenting. You may notice that the father may seem uninvolved to much of what is really going on in the home. There is already a rift in the family because the mother is incarcerated and the oldest daughter has stepped up to take on the role of the mother for the younger children. While the father may seem absentee he is relying on the older daughter, this allow the father to be even more distant and less

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