1. Physical neglect: the refusal of or extreme delay in seeking necessary health care, child abandonment, inadequate supervision, rejection of a child's needs and failure to adequately provide for the child's safety. Physical neglect can cause failure to thrive, serious illness, physical harm due to lack of supervision and most importantly a lifetime of low self esteem. .
3. Educational Neglect: when a child is allowed to engage in chronic truancy and is of mandatory school age but is not enrolled in school. .
4. Emotional Neglect: chronic or extreme spousal abuse in presence of a child.
5. Medical Neglect: Failure to provide appropriate health care although financially capable to do so.
II. Child Abuse Stories.
1. When do parents go too far? Many people have heard of a slap on the butt or a smack to the hand, but have they tried leaving a child on a busy interstate? In august of 1999 Randy Wynn was charged with child neglect. Driving one day Randy was frustrated with his six year old son, who was whining in the back seat of their van. As punishment, Randy pulled the car over and left his six year old son on the ramp of a busy intersection and drove off. Randy claimed to be just disciplining his son, and judge set him free saying it was just corporal punishment. In my opinion, a busy interstate is not where I would leave my child. The only thing the child will learn from this is to fear his own farther. The child was put in serious danger and could have been killed, but the father was let off un-charged.
2. In a related story a mother and father nearly killed their eight year old little girl. In June of 2001, police found an eight year old girl locked up in a closet. This child had been in the closet for four months. The closet that the little girl was in was infested with fleas and covered in urine. The child weighed 25 pounds and was extremely malnourished. The worst part of this whole story is that it could have been prevented.
