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futuristic

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What is the difference between child abuse and neglect? Please explain.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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How do you think child abuse and neglect are related to delinquency? Explain how they manifest in various forms of unacceptable social behaviors.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

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 Neglect: A disregard for the physical, emotional, or moral needs of children. Child neglect involves the failure of the parent or caregiver to provide nutritious food, adequate clothing and sleeping arrangements, essential medical care, sufficient supervision, access to education, and normal experiences that produce feelings of being loved, wanted, secure, and worthy.
 Child abuse: The mistreatment of children by parents or caregivers. Physical abuse is intentional behavior directed toward a child by the parent or caregiver to cause pain, injury, or death. Emotional abuse involves a disregard of a child's psychological needs. Sexual abuse is any intentional and wrongful physical contact with a child that entails a sexual purpose or component, and such sexual abuse is termed incest when the perpetrator is a member of the child's family.

Answer to Question 2

The answer should include the following points:
 Negative impact on emotional development of children
 Causes self-rejection, self-destructiveness, aggression, and suicide
 Emotional trauma of neglect and child abuse
 Runaways
 Disruptive and truant behavior in school
 Drug and alcohol abuse
 Sexual behavior
 Violence and abuse




futuristic

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Reply 2 on: Aug 17, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


Jossy

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Wow, this really help

 

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