This page gives a breif description of the different types of neglect...
Child Neglect is a broad term that can carry several different meanings.
Usually defined as a failure by parents or care givers to provide for the child's basic needs:
food, water, shelter, clothing, medical care, emotional needs, etc.
It is most commonly used to cover a combination of the many different types of neglect:
physical, educational, emotional/psychological.
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Physical neglect can include the failure to provide adequate food, clothing, or shelter. Failure to obtain appropriate, necessary medical care or emergency services. It is also child abandonment, putting a child out of the house or the refusal to allow a runaway child to return home. Inadequate supervision or leaving a child unattended for long periods of time, and leaving an under aged child alone to be responsible for the care of other children also fall into this catagory.
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Educational neglect includes the failure to provide appropriate schooling or special eduactonal needs; allowing excessive truancies; and the failure to enroll a child of mandatory school age and should be in school according to your states guidelines.
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Psychological neglect includes such actions as chronic or extreme spouse abuse in the child's presence. Lack of any emotional support and love, never attending to the child, drug and alcohol abuse including allowing the child to participate in drug and alcohol use. Refusal of or failure to allow or provide needed psychological care.
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