Neglect, between contexts, children and families
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Cite this article
- ZAOUCHE-GAUDRON, Chantal
- and LACHARITÉ, Carl,
- Zaouche-Gaudron, Chantal.
- et al.
- Zaouche-Gaudron, C.
- and Lacharité, C.
https://doi.org/10.3917/vsoc.228.0027
Cite this article
- Zaouche-Gaudron, C.
- and Lacharité, C.
- Zaouche-Gaudron, Chantal.
- et al.
- ZAOUCHE-GAUDRON, Chantal
- and LACHARITÉ, Carl,
https://doi.org/10.3917/vsoc.228.0027
The first aim of this article is to analyze the various definitions of child abuse, violence and neglect. This is a difficult but necessary exercise, requiring a reflective, interdisciplinary and contextualized approach in order to apprehend, in a specific way, what constitutes child neglect. If children’s needs are evoked in this type of definition, they are based on an individualizing conception of the role and responsibilities of parents. Such a conception also constitutes a reduction or simplification of the complexity of the ecosystemic and developmental model of neglect situations. The second part develops this model in order to understand neglect in terms of the articulation between child, parent and social space. Such a model makes it possible to grasp the nature of the mechanisms by which these situations are produced, and the experiences they give rise to in children and parents. Child neglect is, in fact, a complex social problem that resists one-dimensional attempts to solve it.