cluding inadequate provision of food, housing, or clothing appropriate for the season or weather, lack of supervision, abandonment, or inadequate hygiene. Educational neglect is the failure to enroll a child of mandatory school age into school or to provide necessary special education. This also includes allowing excessive truancies from school. Emotional neglect is a lack of emotional support and love, such as domestic violence in the child's presence, drug, and alcohol use in front or allowing participation of the child, or failure to provide necessary psychological care(). An estimated 896,000 children across the country were victims of abuse or neglect in 2002 says the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in April of 2004. 12.3 out of every 1,000 children were victims of abuse or neglect. Approximately, 1,400 children died of abuse or neglect, a rate of 1.98 children per 100,000 children in the population.
             Parents who were abused as children are more likely than other parents to abuse their children. In the following viewpoint, the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR) maintains that despite claims to the contrary, poverty is the primary cause of child abuse and the reason many children are removed from their homes. The federal government's Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3) compared families with an annual income of under $15,000 to families with an annual income over $30,000. They found that abuse is fourteen times more common in poor families and with neglect, it is forty-four times higher in poor families.()
             The term sexual addiction was used more than a half a century ago by Fenichel
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