If you are being abused or neglected call the police and they will put you in a foster home.
The fact that it is precisely those affected by extreme poverty that are in this way neglected calls for action on a first-order and on a second-order level.
The teacher may suspect neglect and call child-welfare authorities.
Citing the raw feelings provoked by the battles of the civil rights era, Mr. Moynihan suggested a period of rhetorical calm -- "benign neglect" he called it -- a proposal widely misinterpreted as a call to abandon federal programs to improve the lives of black families.
She neglected to call her mother for Christmas or New Year's.
A third lawyer failed to attend some critical hearings, arrived late at others and neglected to call witnesses who had volunteered to testify about a defendant's character.
After Lemken neglected to call this bluff — he didn't feel like travelling to England — Barry reiterated the invitation two months later, having meanwhile added some filigree to the Köhler saga: he was born in the Weimar region, travelled on a Swiss passport, and had a grandnephew, "now safely settled in Israel," who was "a musician and budding conductor".
When the referees, on the game's last, desperate play, neglected to call a pass-interference penalty that would have given the Giants another attempt at a winning kick, and when the National Football League officially acknowledged, the next afternoon, that the refs had blown it, many thoughtful fans had the presence of mind to say, "The Giants deserved it, anyway".
According to the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown, the father, Li Hangbin, 27, inflicted horrific injuries on Annie on Oct. 22, 2007, and then, along with Ms. Li, 26, neglected to call 911 until after midnight, which might have cost the baby her life.
Because when you neglect your calling beyond motherhood, the impact of NOT pursuing it is far greater than you think.
