Before going in depth with the effects that victims of emotional abuse and neglect present, we should know what exactly neglect, and emotional abuse mean. Neglect is the failure to provide a child the basic needs, such as food, clothes, attention, and so on. (Child Welfare Information Gateway. 2008) Sometimes, the victims are left home alone, or not well supervised and their parents or the person that is in charge of them, forget to isolate dangerous things from the child’s environment (Family Relationships Online, 2012). On the other hand, according to Dorota Iwaniec, emotional abuse ‘refers to hostile or indifferent parental behaviour which damages a child’s self esteem’. (p4). This means that, parents or the person that is in charge of the child, not only reject the victim, but also criticize him or her constantly. What is even worse, the victim might also suffer from threats or blackmailing. For instance, the person in charge or the child’s parents, may threat the kid by saying that he or she will leave home if the child does not improve his or her grades. According to the American organization called Prevent Child Abuse America due to the constant criticism and
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