Dominant Research on Child Neglect and Dialogic Practices: when the Voice of Families is Translated or Ignored

Lafantaisie, Vicky; St-Louis, Jean-Charles; Bérubé, Annie; Milot, Tristan; Lacharité, Carl

doi:10.1007/s12187-019-09679-7

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“…Our results are consistent with numerous studies that have raised awareness on the potential negative impacts of the lockdown, particularly for school-aged children, on many aspects of child development, including physical and mental health ( Golberstein, Wen, & Miller, 2020 ; Liu, Bao, Huang, Shi, & Lu, 2020 ; Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zhang, & Jiang, 2020 ). In the context of neglect, there is a tendency to put all the responsibility on the parents, although it is theoretically recognized that parents should not be the sole providers of all the child's needs ( Lafantaisie et al, 2020 ). The fact that the response to younger children’s needs seems less affected by the lockdown may simply reflect the fact that these parents are more used to assuming most of the responsibilities for their children.…”

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“…Furthermore, certain approaches focus on improving parents’ knowledge and skills ( Prinz, Sanders, Shapiro, Whitaker, & Lutzker, 2016 ; Prinz, Sanders, Shapiro, Whitaker, & Lutzker, 2009 ). However, according to a recent analysis, it appears that the ecosystem model would be the most relevant to produce research results that could adequately reflect this complex issue, since it avoids focusing solely on mothers and reflects more broadly on the context of child neglect ( Lafantaisie, St-Louis, Bérubé, Milot, & Lacharité, 2020 ).…”

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How societal responses to COVID-19 could contribute to child neglect

Bérubé

Clément

Lafantaisie

et al. 2021

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Highlights COVID-19 lockdown left parents as the sole respondents for their children’s needs. We examine parents’ reports on the response their child received to their needs during the lockdown. Parents of older children reported less fulfillment of children’s needs. Societies must ensure pandemics do not create context for child neglect.

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How societal responses to COVID-19 could contribute to child neglect

Bérubé

Clément

Lafantaisie

et al. 2021

Child Abuse & Neglect

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“…This emphasizes the need to better understand different perspectives regarding child neglect, and specifically taking a child-focused approach (Christ et al, 2017) to understand the perspectives of children and youth. Furthermore, a recent literature review identified that mainstream studies on neglect generally excluded the lived experiences and points of view of parents and children and thus “appear to be insufficient for an optimal understanding of the situation of families” (Lafantaisie et al, 2020, p. 425).…”

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“Care About us First”: Israeli Youths’ Perspectives on Child Neglect

Gross-Manos

Marey‐Sarwan

Barnea

et al. 2023

J Interpers Violence

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Child neglect is considered the most common form of child maltreatment with severe implications for children’s development. Nonetheless, there is a dearth of scholarly literature examining child neglect, possibly stemming from a lack of consistent definition. The current qualitative study addresses this gap by aiming to understand the phenomena of child neglect from the direct perspective of youth from the general population, a perspective that has so far barely been considered. Data were collected by 10 focus groups conducted among multicultural youth aged 12 to 15 years in the north of Israel. The qualitative-thematic analysis generated three main themes, each including several subthemes: (a) experience of neglectful behavior (lack of parental care, lack of parental priority, dynamics of blaming the child, rejection, and relinquishment of the child); (b) instrumental characteristics of neglect (lack of material and financial investment in the child, expressions of neglect in providing food and nutrition, poor appearance and hygiene of the child and home); (c) lack of parental involvement (lack of parental guidance, lack of communication and availability, lack of presence in the child’s life). The perspectives of the Israeli youth resembled existing conceptualizations of child neglect. The youth also added a new dimension to the conceptualizations in their focus on the emotional context involved in the range of neglectful behaviors they described. This new conceptualization of child neglect is discussed together with some suggestions for how it can inform better professional practice.

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“…The state's operationalization of parental failure has been historically gendered, with mothers often identified by the state as sole primary caregivers of children (Orloff, 1996;Skocpol, 1992). Dominant research on child neglect has usually explicitly or tacitly followed the state's operationalization of who primary caregivers are by only sampling mothers when conducting research on parental neglect (Lafantaisie et al, 2020). A troubling cycle may emerge from the way dominant research has operationalized neglect.…”

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“…The ecological model stresses contextual factors and moves the theoretical focus away from parental risk factors for neglect when it is applied in both research and practice. However, parent-level risk factors (maternal age, household size, household income, maternal depression, maternal education level, parenting stress level, and marital status) are nearly always the only factors considered (Lafantaisie et al, 2020). Many child neglect scholars using the ecological model struggle to clarify how structural inequality results in child neglect.…”

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Neglect as Collective Failure to Provide for Children: Towards a New Theoretical Approach

Blumenthal¹

2021

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The dominant definition of neglect asserts that it occurs when a caregiver fails to provide for a child’s basic psychological and physical needs. Flowing from this dominant definition, current theoretical understandings of neglect largely focus on parental omissions in care. This essay argues that, aside from the inherent ambiguity in the concept of neglect, these theories of how and why neglect occurs are inadequate, because the broader context of the parent-child relationship is deemphasized or omitted. To further research and intervention on child neglect, this essay proposes a theoretical understanding of child neglect that stresses structural inequality (poverty and racism) as a fundamental cause. The article then examines prior theories of neglect, detailing how structural inequality is underemphasized. Finally, it suggests a way of advancing theoretical models of child neglect that integrates scholarship on systemic racism, intergenerational poverty, and child maltreatment. Ultimately, this article argues that child neglect might best be viewed as a collective failure of society to prioritize justice, equality, and economic sufficiency—the necessary foundations for the healthy growth and development of children.

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Dominant Research on Child Neglect and Dialogic Practices: when the Voice of Families is Translated or Ignored

Cited by 10 publications

References 33 publications

How societal responses to COVID-19 could contribute to child neglect

How societal responses to COVID-19 could contribute to child neglect

“Care About us First”: Israeli Youths’ Perspectives on Child Neglect

Neglect as Collective Failure to Provide for Children: Towards a New Theoretical Approach

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