Child maltreatment includes both acts of fee and acts of omission on the part of dad and mom or caregivers that cause actual or threatened harm to a baby. Normally, abuse refers to (normally deliberate) acts of commission whereas neglect refers to acts of omission. What's Child Abuse and Neglect? Among professionals and the general public, there may be disagreement as to what behaviors represent bodily abuse of a toddler. That is actual.