Exam 5: Risk Factors in Child Abuse and Neglect

The strongest relationship between mental illness and child maltreatment is depression.

Most provinces and territories allow foster parents to use corporal punishment to discipline foster children.

In single parent households the introduction of a father surrogate does not increase the risk of maltreatment.

Parents who are poor have a higher likelihood of coming to the attention of mandatory reporters.

Children with disabilities may be at lower risk for medical neglect.

Young children are at risk of child abuse and neglect partly due to their limited ability to interact verbally with others.

Large family size does not increase the risk of child maltreatment as older children can help parent younger children.

Being cared for outside the home is a risk factor for abuse.

Seeing a risk factor in a child, family, or community does not alone signify the existence of child abuse or neglect.

The relationship between parental substance abuse and physical abuse is stronger than the relationship between parental substance abuse and other types of maltreatment.