Family Function and Dysfunction

Ludwig, Stephan; Rostain, Anthony L.

doi:10.1016/b978-1-4160-3370-7.00010-9

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“…It presents a range from a more passive lack of parental care to deficits in the parents’ priorities to a more active dynamic of blaming and even rejecting the child. Youth addressed parental neglect as behaviors that ignore their emotional needs, a main aspect of emotional neglect (Ludwig & Rostain, 2009). While in most cases they did not mention feelings directly, we identified the emotional aspect involved in these neglectful behaviors as part of the meaning of child neglect from their perspective.…”

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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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“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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“…One could speculate that neglect flattens emotion dynamics (e.g., higher inertia), as one has learned to become emotionally unresponsive to specific contextual information, and endures/ignores the associated and familiar negative emotions. There is an established connection between neglect and "flat [blunted] affect" in children once their needs are consistently disregarded, ignored, invalidated, or unappreciated, and the child goes into "I'm on my own" modus and becomes emotionally disconnected (see Ludwig & Rostain, 2009). This is a common intergenerational loop (e.g., Greene et al, 2020;Osborne et al, 2021), and flattened affect has also been reported in the context of overabundant wealth, when the family does not meet a child's emotional or safety needs (Ludwig & Rostain, 2009).…”

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Specific types of childhood abuse and neglect and profiles of adult emotion dynamics

Myroniuk¹,

Reitsema²,

Jonge³

et al. 2022

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Childhood maltreatment (CM) is experienced by ~40% of all children at major personal and societal costs. Studies show adverse consequences of CM on emotional functioning and regulation. This article focuses on differential imprint of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and/or neglect exteriences during childhood on emotional functionin later in life To study this, we calculated how intense, variable, unstable, inert, and diverse the daily emotions were of 290 Dutch adults (aged 19-73, measured thrice daily during 30 days (90 measurements per person, for five emotion dynamic indices). Participants described abuse/neglect retrospectively using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ). In our structural equation model (SEM), only physical abuse was unrelated to all five emotion dynamic indices. Abuse and neglect showed specific patterns, e.g., emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and physical neglect associated mostly with negative emotions, and emotional neglect predominantly with positive emotion dynamics. CM types were associated differentialy with low versus high arousal emotion dynamics (i.e sexual abuse associated with increased and emotional neglect with reduced emotion dynamics). Dissecting CM effects on adult emotion dynamics may inform theories on the ontogenesis and functioning of emotions, theories on abuse and neglect and the prevention of their developmental sequalia, and help to identify and understand well-adjusted and (dys-)functional emotional development.

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“…Krugman (1991, p. 101) Child abuse and neglect is a major threat to the health and well-being of children throughout the world. Maltreatment has long been know to occur primarily in the family setting and is a problem firmly rooted in the pattern of caregiving provided to the child (Ludwig & Rostain, 1992). Historical review and cultural studies indicate that caregivers have maltreated children in all cultures and nations of origin (Hobbs, Hanks, & Wynne, 1993;Korbin, 1987;Lazoritz, 1992;Levinson, 1989;Radbill, 1987;Solomon, 1973).…”

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A Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Child Physical Abuse and Neglect

Giardino¹,

Lyn²,

Giardino³

2009

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Family Function and Dysfunction

Cited by 13 publications

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

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

Specific types of childhood abuse and neglect and profiles of adult emotion dynamics

A Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Child Physical Abuse and Neglect

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