Deck 7: Outcomes of Child Abuse: Increased Risk for Experiencing Violence in Adulthood

Question 1

Women who were victims of child abuse are ________ likely to experience intimate partner violence as women who were not physically assaulted in childhood.

A) as
B) twice as
C) three times as
D) less

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following answers is not a form of childhood sexual abuse?

A) Active and Passive neglect.
B) Premature Sex Engagement.
C) Incest and Molestation at Home.
D) Preadolescent Prostitution (situational and continuous).

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Revictimization is defined as:

A) Repeated abuse of the same victim by a batterer
B) Stalking a victim over time to continue abuse
C) Abuse of the same form by different people across one's lifecourse
D) None of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following is not a sexual script for women in the United States?

A) Women should resist sexual advances
B) Women should initiate sex
C) Women should be more conservative about sex
D) Women should be less interested in sex than man

Question 5

Premature sex engagement is defined as experiencing one's first sexual interaction at a young age with a partner that is around the same age.

Question 6

Childhood Adultification refers to contextual, social, and developmental processes that prematurely expose children to adult knowledge, and lead children to assume adult roles and responsibilities.

Question 7

Consequences that are associated with early sexual engagement that is consensual with a same-aged partner include all of the following except:

A) Higher rates of STDs
B) Higher rates of unintended pregnancy
C) More sexual partners
D) Higher risk for drug and alcohol abuse

Question 8

Situational prostitution refers to the circumstance when a person engages in prostitution only when it seems the most efficient way in which to meet an immediate need.

Question 9

All of the following are common responsibilities of women working in liquor houses except:

A) Cooking
B) Pouring drinks
C) Sex with the owner
D) All of the above are common responsibilities

Question 10

Select the answer that explains why women who were physically or sexually abused in childhood enter adult relationships as teenagers:

A) To escape the abusive home environment.
B) To prove to themselves and others that they can "do it right."
C) To achieve what they discern as safety, security, comfort, or love
D) All of the above.

Question 11

Many women who were victims of child sexual abuse do not have access to a healthy environment or the financial resources to get the support they need. Thus, for many women, the only way to support themselves is through participating in the illegitimate economy.

Question 12

Some women stay with abusive partners because:

A) They want protection from outside abuse
B) They want protection from past abusers
C) They "prefer" abuse that is familiar/predictable to that which is unknown
D) All of the above

Question 13

Which of the following statements is not an 'economic outcome' of childhood sexual abuse?

A) Trading sexual access for economic support, primarily amongst women with less affluence.
B) A woman leaves a violent or sexually abusive relationship only to face poverty and homelessness.
C) Higher risk of alcohol and substance abuse, as well high risk of engaging in self-harm practices.
D) When parents/guardians take turns working and looking after children, also known as "split shifts," the children may be put at risk for abuse.

Question 14

Select the answer that correctly defines an order of protection:

A) Prohibits any physical contact
B) Often restricts the abuser from being within a certain distance of the victim
C) Prohibits phone, text or email contact
D) A and B only
E) All of the above

Question 15

____________ women are __________ likely than ____________ women to experience lethal and near-lethal violence.

A) White; more; African American
B) African American; more; White
C) African American; less; White
D) White; just as; African American

Question 16

While many white women had experienced molestation or incest, virtually all of the African American women interviewed in the textbook had experienced child sexual abuse in the form of incest, childhood prostitution, or premature sex engagement.

Question 17

Select the answer that describes the impact of prostitution on women's sons:

A) Exposure to prostitutions may lead to early introduction to and engagement in drug culture.
B) Exposure to prostitution may lead sons to participate in prostitution later in life.
C) Exposure to prostitution may lead to boys and young men learning lessons about women through the johns the mother serviced.
D) Answers a. and c. are correct.

Question 18

Experiencing abuse in childhood __________ a man's risk of abusing a partner.

A) Lessens
B) Doubles
C) Triples
D) Does not impact

Question 19

Witnessing abuse in childhood ___________ a man's risk of abusing a partner.

A) Lessens
B) Doubles
C) Triples
D) Does not impact

Question 20

The intergenerational transmission of violence theory states that a propensity toward becoming a victim of violence is transmitted from parent to child.

Question 21

Explain how the following quote by Jody Raphael describes the connection between child sexual abuse (CSA) and sexual abuse in adulthood. "If your body does not present limits to other people, you begin to feel that you do not have a right to exist, to take up space."

Question 22

How do sexual scripts differ across race, gender, and culture lines?

Question 23

Explain the two examples of behaviors that put victims of child sexual abuse (CSA) at risk for intimate partner violence (IPV) from the text.

Question 24

How does the culture of sexual initiations influence statutory rape laws governing a society?

Question 25

What is the impact on segregation and institutional racial inequalities on the rates of child sexual abuse in the African American community?

Question 26

What is the relationship between child sexual abuse and a woman's ability to leave an abusive intimate partner?

Question 27

In what way does abuse have a long-term effect?

Question 28

Why would an abused woman continue to be around and stay with her abuser?

Question 29

What are some racial differences in child sexual abuse and intimate partner violence?

Question 30

How does prostitution by a mother impact her son?