child neglect

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   failure of caretakers to provide adequate emotional and physical care for a child

   Broadermaltreatment

Questions about child neglect

What does child neglect mean?

child neglect means "failure of caretakers to provide adequate emotional and physical care for a child".

Is child neglect a common word?

child neglect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.