Sentences with phrase «accept child abuse and neglect»

I think that many people don't want to accept child abuse and neglect in the first place — it's too painful.

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According to Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., psychiatrist and leading expert on trauma and how it affects the brain, as many as 80 % of abused and neglected infants and children develop disorganized / disoriented attachment relationships, which are expressed as unpredictable approach and avoidance patterns towards mother, the inability to accept comfort from caregivers, rage at attachment figures, and pathological self - regulatory behaviors.

On a completely unrelated note, there are supportive online communities and then there are echo chambers of lunacy, where members appear unable to spot actual neglect and child abuse, but get all het up about safe, accepted and necessary standard medical care.