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  2. Abandonment (emotional) - Wikipedia

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    Feelings of emotional abandonment can stem from numerous situations. According to Makino et al: Whether one considers a romantic rejection, the dissolution of a friendship, ostracism by a group, estrangement from family members, or merely being ignored or excluded in casual encounters, rejections have myriad emotional, psychological, and interpersonal consequences.

  3. Child abandonment - Wikipedia

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    Child abandonment is the practice of relinquishing interests and claims over one's offspring in an illegal way, with the intent of never resuming or reasserting guardianship. [ 1 ] The phrase is typically used to describe the physical abandonment of a child. Still, it can also include severe cases of neglect and emotional abandonment, such as ...

  4. Abandoned child syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Abandoned child syndrome. Abandoned child syndrome is a proposed behavioral or psychological condition that is said to result from the loss of one or both parents. Abandonment may be physical or emotional; that is, the parent may abandon the child by failing to be present in their life, or by withholding affection, nurturing, or stimulation. [1]

  5. Abandonment (existentialism) - Wikipedia

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    Abandonment, in philosophy, refers to the infinite freedom of humanity without the existence of a condemning or omnipotent higher power.Original existentialism explores the liminal experiences of anxiety, death, "the nothing" and nihilism; the rejection of science (and above all, causal explanation) as an adequate framework for understanding human being; and the introduction of "authenticity ...

  6. Abandon - Wikipedia

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    Abandonment (emotional), a subjective emotional state in which people feel undesired, left behind, insecure, or discarded. Abandonment (legal), a legal term regarding property. Child abandonment, the extralegal abandonment of children. Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property, legal status of property after abandonment and rediscovery.

  7. Abandonment (legal) - Wikipedia

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    Abandonment (legal) In law, abandonment is the relinquishment, giving up, or renunciation of an interest, claim, privilege, possession, [1] civil proceedings, appeal, or right, especially with the intent of never again resuming or reasserting it. Such intentional action may take the form of a discontinuance or a waiver.

  8. Moral disengagement - Wikipedia

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    Moral disengagement is a meaning from Developmental psychology, educational psychology and social psychology for the process of convincing the self that ethical standards do not apply to oneself in a particular context. [ 1 ][ 2 ] This is done by separating moral reactions from inhumane conduct and disabling the mechanism of self-condemnation ...

  9. Apostasy in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    [4] "Apostasy is a theological category describing those who have voluntarily and consciously abandoned their faith in the God of the covenant, who manifests himself most completely in Jesus Christ." [ 5 ] "Apostasy is the antonym of conversion; it is deconversion."