Child neglect

Connell-Carrick, K. (2003) A critical review of the empirical literature identifying correlates of child neglect. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 20, 5, 389-425. 

The primary issue here is whether a fetus is a legal person such that damaging it through drug addiction is child neglect. 

The Florida Supreme Court began by reviewing case law and concluding that a fetus is a person for purposes of the child neglect statute. (For example, it looked at situations where a fetus had been hurt or killed in an assault.)... 

Benecke, M. (2001). Child neglect and forensic entomology. Forensic Sci. Int. 120, 155-159. 

Maternal cocaine use can affect reproduction by adversely affecting the pregnancy. In addition, cocaine use may directly injure the fetus and/or produce behavioral and developmental abnormalities in the neonate. Indirect toxicities of cocaine abuse may result in severe health consequences including child neglect and abuse, loss of family structure, an increased risk of AIDS, and congenitally acquired sexually transmitted diseases (Benowitz 1992). A study of data from 72 U.S. Poison Control Centers in 1990 that analyzed 1.7 million... 

Axis I Dysthymic disorder Reading disorder Axis II No diagnosis Axis III Influenza Axis IV Victim of child neglect Axis V GAF = 44 (current)... 

Table 64.1 Signs of child neglect and abuse Chapter 67 Stiff, feverish patients Table 67.1 Causes of NMS and SS Table 67.2 Comparison of NMS. SS and lethal catatonia Chapter 68 Catatonia...

Bellinger DC. 1995. Interpreting the literature on lead and child development The neglected role of the "experimental system". Neurotoxicol Teratol 17 201-212. 

MacDonald, K. (1987). Parent-child physical play with rejected, neglected and popular boys. Developmental Psychology s, 705-711. 

Physical abuse and neglect are the most common forms of maltreatment among parents who use drugs (Chaffin, Kelleher and Hollenberg 1996 Locke and Newcomb 2003 Child Welfare Information Gateway 2004). 

Bernstein, D.P., Stein, J.A., Newcomb, M.D., Walker, E., Pogge, D., Ahuluvalia, T., Stokes, J., Handelsman, L., Medrano, M., Desmond, D. and Zule, W. (2003) Development and validation of a brief screening version of the childhood trauma questionnaire. Child Abuse and Neglect 27, 169-190. 

Chaffin, M., Kelleher, K. and Hollenberg, J. (1996) Onset of physical abuse and neglect psychiatric substance abuse and social risk factors from social community data. Child Abuse and Neglect 20, 191-203. 

Coohey, C. (2003) Making judgements about risk in substantiated cases of supervisory neglect. Child Abuse and Neglect 27, 7, 821-840. 

Corcoran, J. (2000) Family interventions with child physical abuse and neglect a critical review. ... 

Howe, D. (2005) Child Abuse and Neglect Attachment, Development and Intervention. Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan. 

Jaudes, P.K. and Ekwo, E. (1995) Association of drug abuse and child abuse. Child Abuse and Neglect 19, 9, 1065-1075. 

Lalayants, M. and Epstein, I. (2005) Evaluating multidisciplinary child abuse and neglect teams a research agenda. Child Welfare 84, 4, 433-458. 

Murphy, J.M., Jellinek, M., Quinn, D., Smith, G., Poitrast, EG. and Goshko, M. (1991) Substance abuse and serious child maltreatment prevalence, risk and outcome in a court sample. Child Abuse and Neglect 15, 197-211. 

Nair, P., Schuler, M.E., Black, M.M., Kettinger, L. and Harrington, D. (2003) Cumulative environmental risk in substance abusing women early intervention, parenting stress, child abuse potential and child development. Child Abuse and Neglect 27, 997-1017. 

Ornoy, A., Michailevskaya, V., Lukashov, I., Bar-Hamburger, R. and Hard, S. (1996) The developmental outcome of children born into heroin-dependent mothers, raised at home or adopted. Child Abuse and Neglect 20, 5, 385-396. 

Smith, B.D. and Testa, M.F. (2002) The risk of subsequent maltreatment allegations in families with substance-exposed infants. Child Abuse and Neglect 26, 97-114. 

Terling, T. (1999) TheefFicacy of family reunification practices reentry rates and correlates of reentry for abused and neglected children reunited with their families. Child Abuse and Neglect 23, 12, 1359-1370. 

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