Word: neglectment
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...Pattern of Neglect...
...church's efforts did not stop there. For months afterward, its social workers visited the family at least twice a week, eyeballing the kids for signs of neglect, offering counsel on parenting and managing the home and keeping the faith. "They helped me believe in myself," Mayes says, "to realize that anything was possible." John Jones, the children's father, had learned to smoke crack at the age of 16 from his own father and had spent years in jail after stealing to support his habit. Painfully withdrawn, he says, "I've been doing a little talking now." And planning...
...alive. At her funeral, the Rev. Gianni Agostinelli told mourners that "Elisa was not killed only by the hand of a sick individual, but by the impotence of silence of many, by the neglect of child-welfare institutions and the moral mediocrity that has intoxicated our neighborhoods." Later, Elisa was laid to rest in the Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens. There had been discussion about her body: the Izquierdo side of her family wanted to determine its fate, but so did the Lopez side. And it seems that mortuaries, like city bureaucracies, have rules for such situations. Regardless...
...neglect and abuse of children is the "nation's shame," says Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services. There has been an alarming 25% rise in cases between 1988 and 1993, a year when 2.9 million incidents were reported to child-welfare agencies and 1,028 kids died of maltreatment. At the same time, burnout and budget cuts are steadily thinning the ranks of child-welfare workers, and those who remain are juggling unwieldy case- loads with dwindling resources. In 22 states and the District of Columbia, child-protection systems have been ruled inadequate by the courts...
Harvard students cringe at the though of detour. They, or I should say we, have our set plans and goals and wish to take the most direct route. Often, with such determined direction in mind, we neglect to take time out for diversion or distraction. Because we sometimes choose to cast our social life into this category of a diversion, it pales in comparison to the Harvardesque level of excellence expected and attained in the scholastic sphere...