Exam 17: Parenting in Challenging Times

A telephone survey of 1,000 American families found rates of physical abuse of children to be ten to sixteen times higher than those reported to official agencies.

Young children get their ideas about their bodies from colloquial expressions,their own sensations,and from time devoted to that part of the body.

To reduce the stress of a child's illness,parents are urged to form a collaborative partnership with __________.

Over __________ percent of children have serious or chronic illnesses.

Many military families have psychological support when

Which of the following is often true of parents who maltreat their children?

In one study,children had fewer worries after the September 11^th attacks than they had had three months before the attacks.

The majority of children leaving foster care at 17

Children are very aware of their bodies and from an early age have a clear sense of how they work.

Mothers seeking private therapy to change child-rearing behavior is a protective factor at the __________ level.

The Wolins consider that children can develop resiliencies in response to difficult life experiences.

When mothers who were the victims of domestic violence received training in parenting skills,their children,two years later,

Being victimized in one year does not increase a child's risk of being victimized in the next year.

In one study the majority of abused teens

Physical abuse itself makes no significant contribution to children's problem behaviors beyond those related to poverty

Children often think illness is a punishment for some misdeed.

Many children who have experienced one form of abuse have experienced another form of abuse as well.

The four stages of the deployment cycle are: __________ _____________________.

Estimates are that ________ percent of boys have experienced sexual abuse by age eighteen.

Many chronic illnesses place restrictions on children and teens that arouse feelings of __________.