child neglect

Child Neglect is failure to provide for a child’s basic needs. Neglect can be physical, educational, or emotional. Physical neglect includes denial of, or delay in, seeking health care; abandonment; removal from the home or refusal to allow a runaway to return home; and poor supervision. The magnitudes of neglect can impair a child 's learning ability, their self-esteem, their current and future social relationships, and harm to their overall wellbeing. We all have heard of stories of child maltreatment, child abuse, and child murder. It looks as if it is getting worse every year. Yet it never fails to amaze us when we hear or read about terrible mistreatment of children around the country. If we tried to understand every single incident, we would probably become depressed, and lose our sanity The question now is can young survivors of neglect endure their experience, and can they live a normal life. When examining German-American Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory. Erikson expanded Freud’s concepts of development fundamentally, expanding on each stage, and adding a few of his own. Erikson emphasized that the ego does not just mediate between id impulses and superego demands (Freud’s theory). At each stage, it also acquires attitudes and skills that make the individual an active, contributing member of society. A basic psychological conflict, which is resolved along a continuum from positive to negative, determines healthy or maladaptive outcomes at each stage. ( McLeod 2008).
More severe cases of neglect can result in serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or mental disorders. In some cases of emotional abuse, the acts of parents or other caregivers alone, without any harm evident in the child 's behavior or condition, are sufficient to warrant child protective services ( Anne Shale 2011) And sometimes, agency intervention is too little too late. Such is the case of Emani Moss. The 10-year-old girl found in a trash can at a metro Atlanta

References: Anne Shale 2011. Atlanta Constitutional Journal 2013. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Saul McLeod published 2008