salutary neglect

(noun)

An undocumented, though long-lasting, British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to Great Britain.

Related Terms

  • salutory neglect
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  • Salutary Neglect

Examples of salutary neglect in the following topics:

  • The Patriots

    • Following the French and Indian War (1753–1763), the colonies gained much greater independence due to salutary neglect, which was the British policy of allowing the colonies to violate strict trade restrictions to encourage economic growth.
  • Child Abuse

    • Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child.
    • Child abuse is the physical, sexual, or emotional mistreatment or neglect of a child or children.
    • There are four major categories of child abuse: neglect, physical abuse, psychological/emotional abuse, and sexual abuse.
    • Neglect is the most common type of abuse in the United States and accounts for over 60 percent of child abuse cases.
    • Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child.
  • Modern Trends in Marketing

    • Societal marketing suggests that, for the well-being of society, deficient products should be eliminated; products should be modified to reach the fourth category by incorporating missing short-term benefits into salutary products and long-term benefits into pleasing products; and a company's ultimate goal should be to develop desirable products.
  • Religion and Social Support

    • A meta-analysis of 34 recent studies published between 1990 and 2001 found that religiosity has a salutary relationship with psychological adjustment.
  • The Older Years

    • An example of self-neglect would be an elderly person who forgets to take his medication.
    • There are nearly two million cases of elder abuse and self-neglect in the U.S. every year.
    • Abuse refers to psychological/emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and caregiver neglect or financial exploitation, while self-neglect refers to behaviors that threaten the person's own health and safety.
  • Influence of Parenting Style on Child Development

    • There are four main parenting styles that most parents fall into: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved/neglectful.
    • These parents might be caught up in their own lives and therefore inattentive (although not neglectful) and exhibit little control over their children.
    • With the uninvolved style of parenting, the parents are indifferent and sometimes referred to as neglectful.
    • Neglectful parents may look to their children for support and guidance, and these children often end up "parenting their parents."
    • These parents may provide for the child’s basic needs, but little else; in more extreme forms of neglect, basic needs may not be cared for at all or children may be placed in harmful situations.
  • Problems

    • Find the relativistic generalization of Bernoulli's equation for a streamline (you can neglect gravity).
    • You may neglect friction and assume that the velocity upstream of the jump is constant.
  • Social Correlates of Religion

    • A meta-analysis of 34 recent studies published between 1990 and 2001 found that religiosity has a salutary relationship with psychological adjustment related to less psychological distress, more life satisfaction and better self-actualization.
  • Formation and Comparison of Adverbs

    • alacer, lively, alacrior, —— ingēns, great, ingentior, —— salūtāris, wholesome, salūtārior, —— juvenis, young, jūnior, ——[20] senex, old, senior. ——[21]
  • Differential Treatment by Age or Ageism

    • There are nearly 2 million cases of elder abuse and self-neglect in the U.S. every year.
    • Abuse refers to psychological/emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, caregiver neglect or financial exploitation while self-neglect refers to behaviors that threaten the person's own health and safety.
    • And elders who suffer from self-neglect have an even higher risk (up to 5 times higher) of premature death than do elders who do not suffer from self-neglect.
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