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Neglected children typically have caregivers who fail to provide for their basic needs.
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Neglected children are those whose basic needs are not met by caregivers. Maltreatment of children may take the form of educational, emotional, and/or physical neglect [1]. Caregivers may fail to meet education needs such as schooling or special education. Caregivers may be neglectful of a child’s emotional needs, such as failing to provide adequate psychological support or affection and/or failing to remove a child from an abusive situation. Caregivers also may physically neglect their children including failing to provide shelter, abandoning them, causing malnutrition, or providing inadequate supervision [1, 2]. Consideration must be made for a child’s culture and socioeconomic status in regard to providing educational, emotional, medical, or physical necessities. Neglect may also occur in the presence of other forms of...
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Weymouth, L., Howe, T.R. (2011). Neglected Children. In: Goldstein, S., Naglieri, J.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_1927
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