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Looking for a way to talk to your child about emotional abuse and neglect? Order The Amazing Spider Man on Emotional Abuse and read it with your child. Includes two stories that teach children how to deal with emotional abuse. | |
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Hello Friends of Prevention,
Prevent Child Abuse America works diligently to engage communities, enhance early childhood development, and raise awareness around the issues of child abuse and neglect. While increasing attention is being paid to the issue of child abuse, little research has addressed the equally significant problem of child neglect. We have dedicated this month’s newsletter to the topic of neglect and in doing so we hope to start a conversation around this issue, raise awareness about how to increase protective factors for families and children, and draw attention to potential solutions.
Child neglect is a serious public health, justice, social services, and education problem, not only compromising the immediate health of our nation’s children, but also threatening their growth and intellectual development, their long-term physical and mental health outcomes, their propensity for pro-social behavior, their future parenting practices, and their economic productivity as eventual wage earners.
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Child neglect is the failure to provide for the child's basic needs. Child neglect occurs when a child has been abandoned, is being denied proper physical, emotional or moral care and attention or is being permitted to live under conditions harmful to their well-being. Neglect can be physical, emotional, educational or medical.
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We used to think that parents who neglected their children were either mentally ill, not smart enough to know better, or too poor to be able to do anything about it. We now know that these explanations are too simple. There are many reasons why children are emotionally neglected. Some parents are mentally ill. These parents have a hard time paying attention to their children's needs because they are often too busy dealing with their own illness.
Most people who emotionally neglect their kids, however, are perfectly "normal." They may be rich or poor, black or white (or any other race), single or married, mothers or fathers. They may be very smart about most things, and have good jobs and nice houses. But these people have a hard time with their children. It may be that they do not know any better. They may think that because they do not hit their children, they are doing OK. Or that because they give their children enough food, clothing, and a place to sleep, they do not need to do any more. They may be afraid of spoiling their kids. They do not realize that love is just as important to growing children as food and water.
All parents have moments when they are tired of being parents, such as when they want their children to leave them alone or when their baby's crying drives them crazy. These are normal moments. But when it happens all the time, then it is more serious. When a parent never finds joy with his/her child, or when a parent always ignores his/her child's emotional needs, then it becomes neglect.
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