Deck 1: History and Theory of Child Maltreatment

Question 1

In 1811, all major French cities had Foundling Homes:

A) which provided care to poor children
B) to watch unsupervised children while their parents worked in the factories
C) which provided care for abandoned infants
D) which provided care to children who were abused and neglected

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which piece of the Ecological Systems Theory is the impact of time, the child's growth, or the historical setting of the child:

A) macrosystem
B) microsystem
C) exosystem
D) chronosystem
E) mesosystem

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The killing of newborn infants is

A) Infanticide
B) Sexual Abuse
C) Child Exploitation
D) Neglect

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What was the name of the little girl whose father died and mother abounded her in the 1870's?

A) Etta Angell Wheeler
B) Mary Ellen Wilson
C) Ashley Nixon
D) Maddison Lu Shoe

Question 5

Battered Child Syndrome is what?

A) a child that is a battered up.
B) When a child shows signs of angermant.
C) When a child shows injuries internally and defined as "accidents by parents"

Question 6

Child maltreatment is a major social concern and occurs in what kinds of families?

A) Middle Class
B) Low Income
C) Upper Class
D) all of the above

Question 7

What was the name of the meal program that provide food to families who are unable to provide adequate food?

A) National School Lunch Act
B) United Way Lunch Program Act
C) Reduce and Free Lunch Act
D) Child Welfare and Lunch Act

Question 8

These are factors to look at when defining maltreatment. They are:

A) severity, type, chronicity, age on onset, frequency
B) severity, chronicity, age on onset, frequency
C) severity, chronicity, frequency

Question 9

What theory states that during the first year of life, infants must develop a strong bond to a caragiver?

A) Psychodynamic Theory
B) Ecological Systems Theory
C) Attachment Theory
D) Behavioral Theory

Question 10

The first real definition and description of child abuse was written by French physician:

A) Ambroise Tardieu
B) Gerald Rousseau
C) John Pestallozi
D) David Gil

Question 11

Laws have traditionally been to protect:

A) infants
B) young children
C) adults
D) teachers

Question 12

The first legal case against child abuse was about a young girl named what?

A) Mary Ellen
B) Ellen Mary
C) Meredith Evans
D) Eve Martin

Question 13

CAPTA is in support of:

A) prevention
B) assessment
C) investigation
D) all of the above

Question 14

What act was passed on January 31, 1974?

A) National School Lunch Act
B) Fair Labor Standards Act
C) Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
D) Child Abuse Victims' Right Act

Question 15

Most states recognize four major types of maltreatment:

A) Child exploritation, child abuse, neglect and sexual abuse
B) Neglect, physical abuse, child exploitation, sexual abuse
C) Neglect, emotional abuse, death, infanticide
D) Emotional Abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect

Question 16

Child Labor Laws were passed first by which state:

A) Texas
B) Florida
C) Massachusetts
D) Mississippi

Question 17

The case that is as the defining moment when physical abuse of children in the United States was finally recognized as a significant problem and addressed legally was the case of :

A) Etta Angell Wheeler
B) Mary Ellen Wilson
C) Edith Marie Carlisle
D) Mary Connolly

Question 18

Mary Ellen Wilson was helped by?

A) The society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
B) The care of Dependent Children
C) Department of Health and Human Services
D) CAPTA

Question 19

What is an orphan train?

A) Trains that moved orphans from orphanage to another orphanage
B) Placement of children of lower income to rural family.
C) Lonely train carts

Question 20

In ancient times infanticide was:

A) used to see how strong infants were
B) the killing of newborn infants
C) used to check the defects
D) only used to the Greeks

Question 21

What U.S. case was seen as the defining moment of physical abuse?

A) Marie Elizabeth Wilson
B) Christine Ellen Wilson
C) Mary Ellen Wilson
D) Mary Connolly

Question 22

Infant abandonment in Paris was

A) 3000-4000.
B) 4000-5000.
C) 5000-6000.

Question 23

Which ancient cultures appear to have encouraged strong parent/child unity?

A) Greek, Roman, Hebrew
B) Chinese, Roman, Hebrew
C) Egyptian, Chinese, Hebrew
D) Greek, Egyptian, Roman

Question 24

Which ancient culture did not allow the killing of infants?

A) Egyptians
B) Hebrews
C) Romans
D) Chinese

Question 25

What are the five categories of abuse?

A) Physical, sexual, emotional, neglect, exploitation
B) bruising, biting, broken bones, malnourishment, lact of education
C) physical, emotional, sexual, developemental delays, malnourishment
D) neglect, pornography, slave labor, physical, prostitution

Question 26

Which of the following can be in the categories of child maltreatment?

A) physical abuse, child exploitation
B) sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect
C) trafficking(women)
D) Both A and B

Question 27

Who was the Italian doctor who established one of the first daycare programs?

A) Rousseau
B) Dorothea Dix
C) Maria Montessori
D) Mary Ellen Wilson

Question 28

How often is a child maltreated?

A) every 60 minutes
B) every 30 minutes
C) every minute
D) every 15 minute

Question 29

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act was passed when?

A) January 31, 1974
B) December 21, 1973
C) January 23, 1974

Question 30

Abuse and Neglect leads a children to become

A) beggars, pimps.
B) police officers, beggars, and murderers.
C) thieves, beggars and murderers.

Question 31

What are types of maltreatment most states recognize?

A) neglect, sexual
B) physical abuse, emotional
C) sexual abuse, physical
D) emotional abuse, neglect
E) all of the above

Question 32

Charles Loring Brace saw great poverty in NYC, he arranged the placement of children in rural areas knowns as:

A) foundling
B) almshouses
C) orphan train
D) group homes

Question 33

Which of the following led to early deaths during the middle ages?

A) Enmeshed
B) Bottles that absorded bacteria
C) chronosystem
D) None of these

Question 34

Which ancient cultures advocated harsh treatment of children?

A) Greek, Hebrew
B) Roman, Hebrew
C) Greek, Roman
D) Chinese, Egyptian

Question 35

By viewing x-rays doctors could see internal injuries undedected by a routine physical this is known as:

A) Munchausen's Syndrome
B) Battered Child Syndrome
C) SIDS
D) Enmeshed Children's Syndrome

Question 36

In what year was the security act amended to provide child protective services funding to states which became a major source of states social service funding?

A) 1978
B) 1986
C) 1981

Question 37

One definition of child abuse is:

A) Anything that results in a child's death.
B) Any act (or failure to act) which results in death, serious physical, emotional or sexual harm or exploitation.
C) Any physical harm to a child.
D) Any failure to discipline a child.

Question 38

What are the five factors to look for in determining if maltreatment or abuse is occurring?

A) bruising, biting, frequency, severity, and chroncity
B) brusing, broken bones, developemental delays, acting out, cleanliness
C) severity, type, chronicity, age of onset, frequency
D) severity, type, developemental delays, malnourishment, bruising

Question 39

Infantcide is:

A) harsh treatment to infants
B) not considering infants to be humans
C) killing of the newborn
D) abandoning the infant

Question 40

Why did most children not survive?

A) commit suicide
B) gang violence
C) poor santitation, lack of food, no medical care, abuse
D) drug abuse

Question 41

What year was America's first orphanage opened?

A) 1729
B) 1950
C) 2001
D) 2007

Question 42

Who started the Orphan Train in the 1850's? Was it successful as a solution to orphanages?

A) Maria Montessori, yes
B) Charles Loring Brace, no
C) Ambroise Tardieu, yes
D) Robert Owen, no

Question 43

What system is not a part of the Ecological Systems Theory?

A) Microsystem
B) Exosystem
C) Mesosystem
D) Envirosystem

Question 44

The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children was started by

A) Mary Ellen Wilson in the 1870's.
B) Etta Angell Wheeler.
C) Henry Burgh.
D) Mary Connelly.

Question 45

Who developed the first real definition of child abuse?

A) Charles Loring Brace
B) Ambroise Tarieu
C) David Gil
D) William Cadagan

Question 46

Who addressess abuse and neglect in psychodynamic theory?

A) Urie Broffenbrenner
B) Albert Brandara
C) Dr. Murray Bowen
D) Sigmund Freud

Question 47

What is one of the most shameful periods in the U. S. History?

A) Orphan Trains
B) Slavery
C) Separation of Native American kids from their families
D) none of the above

Question 48

When was the first child abuse law in effect?

A) 1974
B) 1961
C) 1973
D) 1960

Question 49

In ancient cultures all children were

A) quickly killed before naming.
B) property of the parent who could kill, sell, or abandon them.
C) used in games and cheered on by Roman citizens.
D) known as infanticides.

Question 50

What was the attitude of the Puritans towards children?

A) Love with open arms.
B) Devil must be beaten out of children.
C) Children are innocent; therefore need to learn the ways of the world.
D) Put away with weak kids.

Question 51

Who thought of the phrase "battered child syndrome"?

A) The Hebrew Culture
B) John Robinson
C) Dr. Henry Kempe
D) Dr. Murray Bowen

Question 52

Who was the first child removed from an abusive home legally in the United States?

A) Mary Ellen Wilson
B) Dorothea Dix
C) Mary Connelly
D) Etta Angell Wheeler

Question 53

Which culture had an actual law against harsh treatment against children and did not allow infanticide?

A) Egyptian
B) Chinese
C) Roman
D) Hebrew

Question 54

The microsystem

A) is about time, growth and historical setting.
B) is the parent's work place.
C) has a direct effect on the child.
D) makes families aware of community resources.

Question 55

What is abuse?

A) A national epidemic that is often swept under the rug.
B) Accidental injury to a child by others.
C) There is currently no accepted definition in my states.
D) There is too many definitions to answer the question.

Question 56

What makes up Freud's psychodynamic theory?

A) Id
B) Superego
C) Ego
D) all of the above

Question 57

Which two people worked to save Mary Ellen?

A) Charles Loring Brace and Etta Angell Wheeler
B) Henry Berah and Robert Owen
C) Etta Angell Wheeler and Henry Bergh
D) Charles Loring Brace and Robert Owen

Question 58

In the 19th century in Britain

A) rickets became a form of abuse.
B) only the poor abused and neglected their children.
C) children did not need to be protected.
D) medical doctors began to recognize child abuse as a syndrome.

Question 59

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), requires

A) annual data to be published on the incidence of child abuse and neglect.
B) no money be provided to states for investigation and treatment of child abuse.
C) focus on finding abuse and neglect cases and deferring punishment.
D) establishment of minimum definition of child abuse and neglect.

Question 60

What is the mesosystem?

A) Relationship between people and things in the microsystem
B) Impact of time-child growth on the child
C) Things that directly affect the child
D) Things influence society, therefore the child

Question 61

What are some of the things Indian Children had to go through?

A) Forced to boarding schools to speak English
B) Given new names to go by
C) Not allowed to practice their culture
D) all of the above

Question 62

Which culture used children in "games" where they were tortured and mutilated?

A) Roman
B) Chinese
C) Greek

Question 63

The society for the prevention of cruelty of children formed in what year?

A) 1878
B) 1870
C) 1990
D) 1811

Question 64

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was started to protect

A) Mary Ellen.
B) Henry Bergh.
C) Mrs. Wheeler.
D) all of the above

Question 65

Conditions were harsh in the middle age, most children died due to what conditions?

A) poor sanitation
B) abuse
C) lack of food
D) all of the above

Question 66

Maria Montessori is known for what?

A) Founder of nursery schools in the United States and Great Britian
B) Being the first women foster parent
C) Established the first orphan asylums
D) Founder of the Montessori Method

Question 67

Who was the founder of the society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals?

A) Mary Connolly
B) Etta Angell Wheeler
C) Henry Bergh

Question 68

Which of the following best describes the orphan train?

A) Children placed in families by ministers or town communites
B) Children learn virtues of hard work and Christian life
C) Some children become cheap labor life for farm families
D) all of the above

Question 69

American's first orphanage opened in New Orleans in?

A) 1850
B) 1729
C) 1899
D) 1853

Question 70

The killing of newborn infants:

A) socioeconomic
B) infanticide
C) orphan train
D) foundling

Question 71

What was the child's name that was abused and finally caused the defining moment when physical abuse of children recognized as significant problem and addressed legally?

A) Mary Ellen Wilson
B) Maria Montessori
C) Emile

Question 72

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act was passed in what year?

A) 1862
B) 1974
C) 1961

Question 73

Children of Greece and Rome were given names

A) at birth.
B) after several days or months.
C) after they were 1 year old.

Question 74

Many dynasties in Egypt considered children

A) evil.
B) a nuisance.
C) sinless.

Question 75

Infants that were weak or defective

A) were left in the streets.
B) were given away.
C) were immediately killed.

Question 76

The National Organization of Victim Assistance (NOVA) was founded in?

A) 1973
B) 1909
C) 1935
D) 1975

Question 77

In Family Systems

A) maltreatment is explained by the influence of larger systems outside of the child.
B) failure to resolve sexual conflicts as children can results in sexually abusive behavior as adults.
C) maltreatment affected by family roles, boundaries, communication, roles, and need to balance.
D) B and C

Question 78

In the 1700's what percentage of children died by the age of 5?

A) 40%
B) 75%
C) 50%

Question 79

In the Middle Ages, parents valued children as

A) blessings.
B) those to help with housework.
C) products to be sold.

Question 80

Public Law 93-247, which was passed on January 31, 1974, was made for:

A) National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN)
B) Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment (CAPTA)
C) Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
D) The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)