Exam 10: Victimization at the Beginning and End of Life: Child and Elder Abuse

In the 1940s and 1950s, ______ community brought attention back to the issue of child maltreatment.

Abuse and neglect have no influence on the psychological effect of a child.

Which type of child maltreatment occurs when a caretaker has failed to attend to a child's basic needs?

When abuse and/or neglect is perpetrated by someone within an institution, the group most likely to perpetrate said maltreatment is ______.

Why might an elderly victim choose not to report maltreatment?

Which organization was the first to intervene on behalf of a mistreated child in 1875?

When children live with a single parent who has a cohabitating partner, the likelihood that they will be maltreated increases by how much?

More than ______ of child maltreatment incidents in 2016 were perpetrated by one or both parents.

About 66% of child deaths were attributed to neglect only.

Why is it difficult to determine the amount of child maltreatment that occurs?

Laws that addressed child maltreatment did not exist until 1945.

Examples of physical abuse include ______.

Very little elder maltreatment is reported to police.

______ represents crime that has gone unreported.

Courts often assign maltreated children advocates from ______ organization so they can provide protection and guidance in the case as needed.

Parents with addictions often fail to place their children before their addiction and may leave their children alone and unsupervised or in the care of untrustworthy people.

Examples of emotional abuse include ______.

Children are allowed to testify through videotape or closed-circuit television in court.

People over the age of 90 account for close to half of the substantiated elder maltreatment cases.

The Long-Term Care Ombudsmen Program was created to evaluate abuse and neglect perpetrated by ______.