child abuse child abandonment http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/242037000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Child_abandonment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abandonment https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202415 The practice of relinquishing interests and claims over one's offspring in an illegal way with the intent of never resuming or reasserting guardianship. The phrase is typically used to describe the physical abandonment of a child, but it can also include severe cases of neglect and emotional abandonment, such as when parents fails to provide financial and emotional support for children over an extended period of time. child