Child Neglect
Say no to child neglect
HERE ARE SOME ENTRIES ABOUT CHILD NEGLECTION
Types of child neglect (Mohammad's Entry)
Child neglect is one of the most prevalent types of child abuse. It can affect the overall health and wellness of a child and can lead to long-term effects. Most people, particularly parents, cannot understand the concept of neglecting a child. There are six types of neglect that we may take into consideration and that may help you to understand and respond to the neglect that children in your care can encounter. Physical neglect is the type of problem that represents a parent's inability to satisfy the child's everyday needs, such as food, water, clothes and housing. The second type of neglect is educational neglect, which exists among most children living in impoverished conditions. It is hard to understand how social a child will be without being educated. Third, medical neglect, where parents cannot offer adequate health care to children, and can pose further risks to children's lives. Examples of this include the denial or postponement of medical attention required or prescribed. There is also emotional neglect which is a common form of issue that may have a detrimental effect on children. Emotional neglect could happen by parents that do not provide a complete percentage of affection, care, and support to their children. Therefore, because of this type of neglect, children could feel quite bad in terms of feelings, such as feeling abandoned and even fear of living in this world. Finally, inadequate supervision and environmental neglect are all forms of child neglect and are linked to each other. For instance, leaving a child who cannot take care of themselves at home alone, not protecting a child from potential dangers, or leaving a child with insufficient caregivers. Bear in mind that neglect impacts the physical growth and welfare of children, so it is vital that you do whatever you can to prevent neglect.
Symptoms of child neglect ( Arulini's Entry)
In this civilization, child neglect has been happening everywhere without realising in this world. Many people do not understand when a child has been neglected, one would be experiencing a lot of symptoms that could risk a child’s future. Here are some symptoms that everyone should take note and be aware of. First of all, if a child is lacking the needs of daily life such as food, water, clothes and shelter one could endure in terms of physical. For example, lack of physical growth also known as underweight and poor hygiene. These kinds of physical symptoms could risk a child’s life and they might die. Even from a neglected child’s attitude, we can observe a child going through these kinds of symptoms. Some of the children tend to have monstrous habits such as being too aggressive and angry while some of them tend to have passive habits such as being introvert and fear to communicate with anyone. To add more intense, there are some children who have been neglected would experience traumatic situations such as suffering depression and anxiety. Because of these situations, it can cause a child to self-harm especially by trying to commit suicide or even running away from their house. More over, we can observe a child’s symptoms who is being neglected based on it’s progress in education such as poor record of school attendance and not excelling well in studies. Last but not least, a child can endure these types of symptoms based on medical such as lack of appropriate attention for medical, dental or psychological problems or lack of necessary follow-up care. From this way, a neglected child can have high percentage of possibilities to get infected with sickness or even wither away from diseases.
How to prevent child neglect ( Ezuan's Entry)
Child neglect is an issue that some people do not realise that it can lead to negative effects on children. There are some ways that parents can use to avoid this issue so that children in this modern civilization would not feel neglected. Firstly, parents should try and have a better understanding towards their children. This can help parents learn their children’s behaviour so that parents can be their children’s inspiration in life. It can also help parents have great expectations and it can help them be reasonable towards their children. On top of that, parents should keep their children healthy always as their health is important. If parents are denying their children from lack of food, lack of sleep as well as lack of healthcare, this will be considered as child neglect if parents aren’t careful. Furthermore, parents should also teach their children to avoid alcohol and drug substances so that their children know the negative effects of these dangerous items. Next, if parents are feeling stressed about work or anything else, they should try and relax their minds. If parents are feeling frustrated or if they are feeling emotional, they should talk to some people that they trust more or they can call a prevention hotline if they are worried that they might do horrible things to their children. Another thing that parents can do to avoid this issue is parents should control themselves before disciplining their children. They should also set proper rules so that their children know what to expect. This way, children would not feel neglected if parents are parenting the right way.
Stories about child neglect ( Sharifah's Entries )
These are the stories about three children, Colette Elliot, Danielle and Jason Lopez. These innocent children have been the victims of this so-called child neglect.
We’ll start with Collette Elliot. She was just a normal young girl that lived with her family, in a nice house but not a nice family. She has been treated like a servant at her own house, been neglected by her own parents and has been appointed for things that she didn’t do wrong. Imagine, being a child and going through these emotions and feeling vulnerable, feeling like not able to reach anyone for help and burrowing all of it to self. Now she’s old enough to tell her story, how she grew up with mental health problems, drug addiction, basically an unhealthy life.
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Second, Danielle. Danielle was a child that no one ever knew of. Even her neighbours didn’t know that she even existed. Her mother has never let her daughter out of her room since she was a toddler because of the reason that “the house was dirty”. She was lucky that on the day she stood up with her dirty blanket to peek through the broken window, someone saw her. Her neighbour saw her. After reporting to the police, they searched the house and luckily they found Danielle, tucked away in a dirty room, no clothes, only diapers that had been worn out for some time and afraid of people. She had no capabilities like how a 6 year old should have and only weighed 43 pounds
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Lastly, Jason Lopez. He was a child that has been kept away in a closet for who knows how many years. He was found having severe malnutrition but he is now recovering healthily in a hospital named Catarino Rivas Hospital.
Their stories are unbelievable heartbreaking. How could a parent, a person with soul, a human would actually do things like this towards a child? An innocent child. Think wise before doing any action. Things like this costs life.