Child neglect 'as harmful as abuse'

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Child neglect 'as harmful as abuse'
Adele Horin
December 27, 2010
The Age, New Zealand

CHILD neglect can be just as harmful to children's cognitive development as physical and sexual abuse, a new study shows.

But child-protection authorities do not treat neglect with the same urgency as other forms of child maltreatment.

The study of almost 4000 children aged 14 revealed that those with a history of reported abuse or neglect scored on average three IQ points lower than children who had not been maltreated.

And the children who had been neglected did just as poorly as children with a history of physical or sexual abuse.
 
....The study was published online this month in the medical journal Pediatrics. 
 
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