[Serious Discussion] Religion

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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...

Well that's not neglect if they're in a room on their own for an hour or whatever, that's just parents or carers giving them some space and freedom.
When kids get ignored and don't get fed, while the parents or carers are feeding their addictions or whatever they find more important than their kids, that's neglect, which is abuse. It's not physical, or sexual, but still abuse.