Physical neglect refers to the Failure to provide for a child"s basic physical needs, including refusal of or delay in seeking health care, inadequate provision of food, abandonment,
expulsion from the home or refusal to allow a runaway to return home, inadequate supervision, and inadequate provision of clean clothes.
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physical neglect refers to the failure to provide for a child’s basic physical needs, including refusal of or delay in seeking health care, inadequate provision of food, abandonment, expulsion from the home or refusal to allow a runaway to return home, inadequate supervision, and inadequate provision of clean clothes.