Vocabulary,+search+terms

__**Vocabulary**__
 * Psychology:** the science of the mind or mental states and processes; the science of human and animal behavior
 * Providers:** a person or thing that provides; a person who supports a family or another person
 * Guardians:** a person who guards, protects, or preserves; a person who is entrusted by law with care of the person or property, or both, of another, as a minor or someone legally incapable of managing his or her own affairs
 * Care:** a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern; a cause or object of worry, anxiety, concern, etc.; serious attention
 * Child:** a person between birth and full growth; a son or daughter; a baby or infant
 * Property:** that which a person owns; the possesion or possesions of a particular owner
 * Welfare:** the good fortune; health, happiness, prosperity, etc., of a person, group, or organization; well-being; financial or other assistance to an individual or family from a city, state, or national government
 * Adoption: ** the act of adopting; the state of being adopted
 * Protection: ** the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm; thing, person, or group that protects
 * Neglect: ** to pay no attention or little attention to; disregard or slight; to remiss in the care or treatment of; to omit, through indiffrence or carelessness
 * Maltreatment: ** to treat or handle baby cruelly, or roughly
 * Physical: ** of or pertaining to the body
 * Healthy: ** possessing or enjoying good health or a sound and vigorous mentality; pertaining to or characteristics of good health, or a sound and vigourous mind; conducive to good health; healthful
 * Safe: ** secure from liablilty to harm, injury, danger, or risk; free from hurt, injury, danger, or risk; involving little or no risk of mishap
 * Abuse:** to use wrongly or improperly; misuse; to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way; to speak insultingly, harshly, and unjustly to or about; bad or imprpoper treatment; maltreatment

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