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What is Child Neglect?
May find it difficult to maintain healthy relationships with other people later in
life, including their on children.
More likely to experience mental health problems including depression and post-
traumatic stress disorder.
Can change how their brain develops emotional and verbal pathways.
Myths About Neglect
Myth: Abused children hate their parents and want to get away from them
- Reality: Most children who have been abused by their parents still have a strong attachment or
love for their parents and want to remain living with them. What they really want is for the abuse to
stop.
Myth: Children usually tell someone that they are being abused
- Reality: Different studies have shown that 46% and 69% of adults abused as children never
disclosed it in their childhood. Abusers can be very effective in making children too fearful to talk
about what is going on. Often children do not have the words to use to let someone know what is
happening to them. We are more likely to identify children who are being abused through physical
signs or their behavior.
Myth: It is only abuse if it is violent
- Reality: Child abuse does not necessarily involve violence or anger. Abuse often involves adults
exploiting their power over children, and using children as objects for their own gratification rather
than respecting their needs and rights as children. Child abuse is defined as "...the harming (whether
physically, emotionally, sexually), ill treatment, abuse, neglect or deprivation of any child or young
person".
Statistics About Neglect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF3j5UVCSCA
Sources:
http://www.childmatters.org.nz/58/learn-about-child-abuse/myths-and-realities
https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/whatiscan.pdf#page=2&view=HowIsChildAbuseand
NeglectDefinedinFederalLaw
http://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org/learn/child-abuse-neglect/about-
issue?gclid=CjwKEAjwvMnJBRCO2NSu-Puc6AUSJAAf-OSUU4lTdGIH-
aIBvpBxmEhHRhcL0WuV5JsQN4vc7NHlLRoCg67w_wcB
http://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/media-kit/national-statistics-child-abuse
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-abuse-and-neglect/neglect/child-neglect-
facts-statistics/
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-abuse-and-neglect/neglect/signs-symptoms-
effects-neglect/
http://www.secasa.com.au/pages/helping-the-abused-student-in-the-classroom/