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
Trauma-Related Symptoms in Neglected Preschoolers and Affective Quality of Mother-Child Communication	Milot, Tristan St-Laurent, Diane Ethier, Louise S. Provost, Marc A.	2011
The Role of Protestant children’s homes in nineteenth century Ontario: child rescue or family support?	Neff, Charlotte	2009
Assessing Emotional Neglect in Infants	Wotherspoon, Evelyn Gough, Pamela	2008
Who are these parents involved in child neglect? A differential analysis by parent gender and family structure	Dufour, Sarah Lavergne, Chantal Larrivée, Marie-Claude Trocmé, Nico	2008
Characteristics differentiating neglected children from other reported children	Mayer, Micheline Lavergne, Chantal Tourigny, Marc Wright, John	2007
Cognition, Emotion, and Neurobiological Development: Mediating the Relation Between Maltreatment and Aggression	Lee, Vivien Hoaken, Peter	2007
Cognitive Processes Associated with Child Neglect	Hildyard, Kathryn Wolfe, David	2007
Cumulative stress and substantiated maltreatment: The importance of caregiver vulnerability and adult partner violence	Wekerle, Christine Wall, Anne-Marie Leung, Eman Trocmé, Nico	2007
Factors related to chronic neglect in families	Éthier, Louise S. Bourassa, Louise Klapper, Ulrich Lajoie, Jules Gough, Pamela Léveillé, Sophie	2007
La pauvreté comme facteur de risque de négligence	Mayer, Micheline	2007