05-27-2011, 02:04 AM
(05-26-2011, 11:07 PM)Munch link Wrote: You're not doing anything to them? If you neglect a child you're allowing them to starve and effectively letting them die. You're intentionally ignoring the child's basic needs to survive.
It falls under child abuse (and animal abuse) and therefore is a form of abuse.
I guess what I'm referring to is when it's just leaving the kid in a room for an hour or something, but yea, I guess if you completely neglect them then it would be, there was a family that got sent to jail for locking their grand kids in cages and neglecting them, or when people leave their kids in the car for an extended period of time on a hot day...but I wasn't really referring to more then an hour in a room playing or something...