Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Child neglect is a form of child maltreatment or abuse and can be defined as a deficit in meeting a child s basic needs. Furthermore, it is the failure to provide basic physical health care, supervision, nutrition, emotional nurturing, education or safe housing. Society in general believes there are necessary behaviors a caregiver must provide a child in order for the him or her to develop physically and mentally. However, Parental failure to provide when options are available is taken differently from failure to provide when options are not available. For instance, poverty is an issue which often leads parents to not being able to provide...
