Child Neglect
Children whose parents have issues are sometimes the recipients of the negative results, one result is neglect. Child neglect is defined as being an ongoing pattern of inadequate care for the child and can be noticed by any individual that comes in contact with the child. Some parents do not intentionally neglect their children, rather they do not know how to raise their child and they expect a lot from their child. The four types of child neglect are physical, emotional, educational, and medical. Maltreatment of children, whether abuse or neglect has an impact on the development of a child. There are needs of children that have to be met and sustained in order for there to be proper cognitive and physical development. Unlike physical or sexual abuse, child neglect is often more chronic and difficult to differentiate from poverty. Physical neglect is one of the most widely recognizable forms of neglect. Physical neglect generally involves the parent or caregiver not providing the child basic necessities and failure in well-being, psychological growth and development. The child would go through abandonment, when the parent or caregiver abandons the child for more than two days. Educational neglect can lead to a child failing to acquire basic life skills having good grades or a positive attitude, out of school or continually displaying disruptive behavior. This can pose a serious threat to the child’s emotional well-being, physical health or normal psychological growth and development. Emotional neglect includes actions such as engaging in chronic or extreme spousal abuse in the child’s presence. Emotional neglect also includes allowing the child to use drugs or alcohol, refusing or failing to provide needed psychological care, constantly belittling the child and withholding affection. Medical neglect is the failure to provide appropriate health care for a child. Thus placing the child at risk of being seriously disabled or disfigured or dying. The parent or caregiver is delayed on giving the child their medical needs, making the child sicker or can cause the child to have life-threatening illness. Research on child neglect has found that neglected children are more likely to experience worse developmental outcomes that non-neglected children. Not only are the children that are neglected affected in the home, but they also often tend to struggle in school and with education.
One resolution to the problem is if your financially stable and have the time, and patience to take care of a child then is it right to have children.
ReplyDeleteI agree that children who are neglected from their parents tend to struggle in school and with education because that effects and kid mentally and emotionally. Some kids tend to not try because they don't think anyone cares about them. However some kids turn their life around when they get older using their neglected as motivation to be a better person than their parents.
ReplyDeleteIt's crazy how so many people are products of child neglect from their parents and people don't even know it. They say oh they are "attention seeking" when really growing up their parents probably didn't do the simplest things like play with their child and do activities with them.
ReplyDeleteChildren should not be neglected. Without the loving and guidance from a parent their is just no telling what that kid could end up becoming or what they will end up doing.
ReplyDeleteI slightly disagree that children who are neglected by their parents tend to not do good in school. I only say this because I know a few people who were neglected by their parents and was able to graduate from high school and get into a college. One of their family members took them in and they were striving to have a better life. And when they have kids not to neglect their children. However, there are people who do not do so well in school and feel like no one cares about them.
ReplyDeleteIf you are not financially stable, then I feel as if you should not be having children. You are just going to be another one of these statistics about neglecting your child. You need to have money to care for a child, medically, educationally, and physically. If you do not have those, then of course the child will also lack things emotionally. Preparing for something as serious as a child in advance is also helpful because if you are not where you need to be, you can make eventually make it there.
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