Neglectful/Uninvolved Parenting

I would strongly advise against the measure to remove neglect and emotional abuse from the definition of maltreatment in Oregon. It is important to note that neglect is the most reported and substantiated type of maltreatment, with 771,000 children reportedly suffering from abuse. Neglect can take many forms, and in some cases the signs may not be clear right away. Children may be wearing dirty clothes, or wearing summer clothes in the middle of winter. Other signs could be that the child is hungry all the time and as a result hoards foods, and steals. Children suffering from neglect may also have poor hygiene, or other medical issues. Parents of these children may not have the community help necessary in order to raise a child correctly.

Neglect is the failure to meet a child’s basic physical and or psychological needs, which is likely to affect the child’s health or development. Neglect is when a parent or carer fails to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter (including exclusion from home or abandonment), medical care, or protection from physical and emotional harm or danger. Additionally failure to ensure access to education or to look after a child because the carer is under the influence of alcohol or drugs, is considered as Neglect.

Neglect: parents who cannot meet a child’s basic daily needs such as; hygiene, hunger, clothing and shelter. This can cause the child’s health to worsen and for their development to suffer. The child can also be left with people who cannot properly care for them. Signs and symptoms:

Physical/Emotional neglect is the failure to provide a child with basic needs, including adequate food, shelter, clothing, or necessary medical care. Neglect also exist when an adult fails to provide adequate supervision of a child as when a child is left either unsupervised or in the care of someone unable to supervise the child. Furthermore, neglect occurs when a person creates a substantial risk of physical injury to a child by other than accidental means which would be likely to cause death, disfigurement, impairment of physical or emotional health, or loss or impairment of any bodily function

The Working Together to Safeguard Children report (2013) defines neglect as persistent failings to meet a child's basic physical and psychological needs, for which could result in the serious consequences of the child's health. In essence, neglect may involve a parent or carer failing to:

The Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), is a state-run agency that provides counseling, rehabilitation or placement services for neglected or abused children.

Providing clothing, housing, food and health care to a child is the responsibility of the caregiver/ parent. It is considered neglect when these basic necessities are not provided. However, neglect is characterized by more aspects than this; parent can also show emotional neglect, educational neglect and environmental neglect by failing to do acts such as nurturing and supporting a child, providing educational opportunities and not ensuring a safe environment. (Dubowitz, Pitts, & Black,

Similar to how child neglect is difficult to spot, it is also difficult to define in clear terms. While some define neglect by splitting it into categories – such as physical, educational, and emotional neglect; others detail how neglect refers to the failure of parents to meet the basic needs of their children to what’s considered an adequate standard.

This has been an extremely questionable topic for many generations, whether parents should or shouldn’t smack their children. The law currently states it is lawful in Australia to use corporal punishment to discipline children as long as the punishment is “reasonable” in circumstances. Punishment that is “unreasonable” (e.g., punishment that causes harm to a child that lasts for more than a short period) may be classified as physical abuse and could lead to intervention by police and/or child protection authorities.

Thirty years ago, when the topic of youth sport was imagined, of kids and parents alike, was group of kids playing their favorite sport, driven by the love for the sport, in an any open field they could find. Today when you ask someone what they envision, when you say you sports, is thousands of dollars spent, overzealous parents and sports injuries. Youth sports have drastically changed in the last decade.

The last child rearing style is neglectful child rearing. Not at all like the other three, neglectful child rearing is neither requesting nor responsive. Rather, guardians a totally involved with the child's development. Careless guardians are typically lethargic and contemptuous to their youngsters' enthusiastic needs. Kids raised through this child rearing style are frequently develop and free; despite the fact that they tend to show passionate pull back towards other individuals. In addition, these youngsters don't express their emotions

I have been fortunate enough to be given the chance to study and analyze the portrayals and representations that mothers receive though out the course of media this semester. That course and information I have been learning has broadened my thinking and invited me to analyze the way mothers are portrayed in the young adult literature that we have been examining thus far and the young adult literature that I have experienced prior. More often than not, the mothers in our favorite childhood tales are given a negative reputation, whether that is dead, non-existent or demented and evil and this essay explores the multiple effects that may result in tales

Many people define neglect as a caregiver’s failure to meet a child 's physical needs, such as food, and shelter, and do not realize that neglect also can pertain to a guardian 's failure to meet a child 's cognitive, emotional, and social needs (Fontana, 1979). In order for children to develop properly in these areas, they need to be provided with 'encouragement, presented with the opportunities to progress, and receive positive acknowledgment from their caregivers '

Researchers have also noticed differences in the way co-parenting is structured when the parental figures are African-Americans. In a study by Riina, E. M., & McHale, S. M. (2012), the authors noted that in comparison to other cultures and races, African-American couples are generally subjected to more difficulty in social contexts (p. 8). The authors then go on to state that this inherent difficulty leads to more emotionally charged parental relationships and a greater likelihood of partner miscommunication and conflict; the findings in this study reveal that with the added stressors from being African-American, there is a greater probability that African-American couples will exhibit unsupportive co-parenting (p.9). The authors also looked at economic stability when gathering their findings, noting that the greater the economic problem within a family, the greater the likelihood of conflict and eventual unsupportive co-parenting (p.27).

There is also emotional neglect of the child and its very irritating for them and it is very hurtful to the child’s feeling. Ward (2010) stated that “emotional neglect is any attitude, behavior, or failure to act that interferes with a child's mental health or social development”. As Gardner (2012) claimed that, by keeping the child feelings always under pressure, a parent is creating the fearing process by preventing the child need to interact with other and not showing the positive feelings to the child and blaming the child about every step done it is destroying the emotions and feelings of the child.