Were you emotionally neglected as a child? Here are 3 steps to heal 👆 We all have 3 core emotional needs. As children, we depend on our primary caregivers to meet these needs. How well they do so teaches us how to meet them for ourselves as we become adults. Child emotional neglect is a form of child abuse. It is when a parent consistently fails to respond to the child’s emotional needs. Emotional neglect can happen when a parent is unavailable and unresponsive to the child’s feelings. Examples

One of the most shocking child-neglect cases in Europe involved a 9-year-old boy who survived alone for two years after being abandoned by his mother. She moved in with her partner just 5 km away, visiting only occasionally while leaving the boy to care for himself. He lived without heating, hot water, or proper meals—surviving mostly on cake, canned food, and whatever rations he could find in the house. Despite the neglect, the boy continued attending school daily, performed well academically,