Child abuse and child neglect are two different categories under maltreatment. Neglect is not doing your duty to provide a child’s physical and mental needs. An example of child neglect is if a parent is hooked on either alcohol or drugs and their judgment might be clouded, making the parent unstable to provide care to a child. On the other hand child abuse is when you’re purposely harming a child physically, mentally and or sexually. An example for child abuse would be a parent tearing down a child by telling them there “not worth it”; they “will never be good enough “or even going as far as putting their hands on a child or someone else in front a child. Both child abuse and child neglect are huge issues in today’s society but neglect is