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Neglect is defined as a failure of a child's primary caretaker to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, supervision, and/or medical care.
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Each State provides its own definitions for child abuse and neglect.
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Numerous studies have linked poverty to an increased risk of child neglect.
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Substance abusing parents may be emotionally or physically unavailable and not able to properly supervise their children, risking accidental injuries.
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The term 'failure to protect' often is used in reference to an abused mother's inability to protect her child from exposure to violence in the home.
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Boys and girls are neglected at approximately the same rates.
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Lower income families have the highest rates of neglect.
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Some practitioners believe that untreated depression also is common among neglecting mothers, but there has been little research to substantiate this.
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Research has shown that neglected children are at risk for a number of behavioral, social, academic, and medical problems.
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Non-organic Failure To Thrive (NFTT) is a condition found in infants in which their height and weight are below the fifth percentile.
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Interventions generally includes some level of home visitation.
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Interventions are not limited to families and children; they can target societal conditions as well, such as unemployment, lack of medical care, and poor housing.
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Within the child welfare system, CPS offices usually are the first to respond to reports of child neglect.
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Although neglect historically has been studied less than other types of maltreatment, it now seems to be gaining recognition.
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Continued research is needed regarding an accepted definition of neglect, including sub-types of neglect.
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Understanding neglect requires an awareness of related social problems such as poverty, substance abuse and domestic violence.
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