Impaired Parenting
Inability of the primary caretaker to create, maintain, or regain an environment that promotes the optimum growth and development of the child Defining Characteristics: Infant/child Poor academic performance; frequent illness; runaway; incidence of physical and psychological trauma or abuse; frequent accidents; lack of attachment; failure to thrive; behavioral disorders; poor social competence; lack of separation anxiety; poor cognitive development Parental Inappropriate child care arrangements; rejection of or hostility to child; statements of inability to meet child's needs; inflexibility in meeting needs of child or situation; poor or inappropriate caretaking skills; regularly punitive; inconsistent care; child abuse; inadequate child health maintenance; unsafe home environment; verbalization of inability to control child; negative statements about child;...