What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care to do, leaving them but little time to please themselves.
The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.'
What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.
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