Paper Details  
 
   

Has Bibliography
9 Pages
2356 Words

 
   
   
    Filter Topics  
 
     
   
 

child abuse

ect the child fall under physical neglect. On the other hand, emotional neglect involves the failure to meet a childs need for affection and comfort. For instance, behaving in a cold distant manner, encouraging the use of alcohol and drugs, and failing to meet the educational requirements of the child are all examples of neglect. (Encarta 2) The failure to provide a child with their basic needs can have a toxic effect on their personality development. In extreme cases the child is unable to recover. In 1977, a thirteen-year-old girl name Genie was discovered in a locked room of her fathers house. She had been isolated there since the age of two. Since her father had severely punished her whenever she made noise, she was unable to vocally communicate at all and even cried and threw tantrums in complete silence. Doctors described her as almost subhuman. Genie was unable to chew because she had never been given solid food and, since her father had always denied her of clothing, she paid no attention to any change in temperature. Genie was thirteen-years-old and was unable to talk, run, stand up straight, eat or do any of a number of her God given rights. Her behavior was beyond primitive. Over the next four years psychologists and doctors attempted to socialize Genie and possibly recover some of the damage done by the neglect. In the end, she did learn to speak in short, simple sentences, but she never learned to read or even mature past a toddler mentality. As a result of the abuse that this child received from her father, she was denied the right to develop as a person. (Shepard 81) While Genies case may be extreme in nature, even situations with minor neglect have negative repercussions to children. Similar to the other discussed forms of abuse, theneglect of a child could cause them to have serious emotional issues, not to mention the fact that it could follow the Intergenerational cycle of abuse. Although neglect is actually pretty...

< Prev Page 3 of 9 Next >

    More on child abuse...

    Loading...
 
Copyright © 1999 - 2024 CollegeTermPapers.com. All Rights Reserved. DMCA