Clause 4

by deleting paragraph (g) and substituting the following paragraph:“(g)the child or young person suffers or is likely to suffer from emotional harm because the child or young person has been or is subject to emotional or psychological abuse by his parent or guardian;”; and

by renumbering the section as subsection (1) of that section, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following subsections:“(2) Without limiting subsection (1)(g), the circumstances in which a child or young person may be regarded as being subject to emotional or psychological abuse by his parent or guardian under that subsection include any of the following:

the parent or guardian subjects the child or young person to persistent acts of rejection or degradation that are harmful to the child’s or young person’s wellbeing or sense of self‑worth;

the parent or guardian threatens to physically hurt, kill or abandon the child or young person, or places the child or young person or a related person of the child or young person in any dangerous situation;

the parent or guardian isolates the child or young person by consistently denying opportunities for the child or young person to communicate with any person;

the parent or guardian confines the child or young person in any small space for the purpose of disciplining the child or young person;

the parent or guardian influences the child or young person to develop self‑destructive, anti‑social, criminal, deviant or other maladaptive behaviour; Illustrations(a)The parent or guardian models, permits or encourages anti‑social behaviour such as prostitution, performance in pornographic media, initiation of criminal activities, substance abuse or committing violence to any person.(b)The parent or guardian models, permits or encourages developmentally inappropriate behaviour by infantilising the child or young person.(c)The parent or guardian models, permits or encourages any other behaviour that would result in the exploitation or corruption of the child or young person.(f)the parent or guardian exposes the child or young person to, or places the child or young person at any risk of exposure to, any violence against a related person of the child or young person.(3) In this section, “related person”, in relation to a child or young person, means another person about whose safety or wellbeing the child or young person would reasonably be expected to be seriously concerned.”.