Child Neglect

A Michigan study indicates that exposure to violence and maltreatment by children, especially in low-income, single-mother homes, can play a role in predicting health problems.

This article reviews the theory that the nature, timing and extent of neglect in childhood will determine the level of social and physical delays and dysfunction that a child will develop.

An article focusing on neglect and how it tends to be overlooked for what may be viewed as more serious abuses, yet the outcome for the child can be equally severe.

The tragic story of a child left in a day care van, in sweltering heat because she was forgotten about.

A fact sheet from the American Humane Association that describes the different types of child neglect.

A manual that goes into depth on the topic of child neglect including intervention and social policies that may contribute to this growing problem.

A Department of Children & Families caseworker was charged with drunk driving and felony child neglect after police found her slumped over in her parked car with a 7-month-old foster child crying in the back seat.

A father, frustrated by his belligerent, screaming child, decides a good discipline would be to put him out of the car at a ramp on an interstate highway.

An archive of articles related to the neglect, physical, and sexual abuse of a Hutchins, TX girl confined in a closet for years.

Angry, cold families produce sick kids who may become sick adults.

A tragic story about the six McMullen children, who were kept isolated from the world so that their tyrannical father could beat, verbally abuse, and eventually rape them.