Neglect

Each province and territory has unique legislation defining and describing responses to neglect. Assessing neglect requires a consideration of poverty and other family and community factors. Neglect includes the failure of a parent or guardian to provide a child’s basic needs such as for food, education, healthcare or supervision.

For more information, review the information sheet on the causes, consequences, and factors associated with child neglect and the information sheet on child neglect prevention and intervention.

Title	Authors	Year	Type of Publication
Child Neglect: Developmental Issues and Outcomes	Hildyard, Kathryn Wolfe, David	2002
Factors related to chronic neglect in families	Éthier, Louise S. Bourassa, Louise Klapper, Ulrich Lajoie, Jules Gough, Pamela Léveillé, Sophie	2007	Information sheet
Child Neglect in Canada	Roy, Catherine Black, Tara Trocmé, Nico MacLaurin, Bruce Fallon, Barbara	2005	Information sheet
Maltreatment rates in children with developmental delay	Brown, Ivan Schormans, Ann Fudge	2004	Information sheet
Living in a world of neglect: S.A.I.N. helps families move on	Lacharité, Carl Chamberland, Claire Baraldi, Rosanna	2004	Information sheet
Substance abuse and child neglect: Intruders in the family	Mayer, Micheline Lavergne, Chantal Baraldi, Rosanna	2004	Information sheet
Assessing Emotional Neglect in Infants	Wotherspoon, Evelyn Gough, Pamela	2008	Information sheet
Child neglect I: Scope, consequences, and risk and protective factors	Blumenthal, Anne	2015	Information sheet
Child neglect II: Prevention and intervention	Blumenthal, Anne	2015	Information sheet
Legal Age for Leaving Children Unsupervised Across Canada	Ruiz-Casares, Mónica Radic, Ivana	2015	Information sheet