“…Neglectful parents fail to provide proper care, do not encourage school attendance, provide very little supervision, fail to establish norms or provide emotional and practical support to their children. Lack of child monitoring increases the risk of conduct problems, rule breaking and aggression (Burlaka, 2016; Pettit, Laird, Dodge, Bates, & Criss, 2001; Snyder, Schrepferman, Bullard, McEachern, & Patterson, 2012). Additionally, the use of physical punishment as a logical consequence of misbehavior can result in physical child abuse, the “nonaccidental injury inflicted on a child” (Crosson-Tower, 2013, p. 180).…”