Deck 1: The Maltreatment of Children From a Historical Perspective

Question 1

Infanticide was practiced in order to

A) limit family size
B) control for healthy and strong offspring
C) as a solution when children were born illegitimately
D) to insure the abundance of a particular gender
E) all of the above

Answer 1

all of the above

Question 2

The Elizabethan Poor Law provided for children who had families by

A) placing them with their families
B) separating them and putting them in foster homes
C) providing coupons like food stamps
D) putting them with relatives while their parents went to the workhouses
E) the Quakers had institutions for them

Answer 2

placing them with their families

Question 3

Indenture was used to

A) provide punishment for delinquent children
B) provide homes for boys only
C) teach children trades
D) remove children from abusive parents

Answer 3

teach children trades

Question 4

Pederasty refers to:

A) the selling of young girls into slavery
B) mother's masturbating their sons to increase penis size
C) The practice of adult males indoctrinating young boys sexually
D) the use of young women who were about to enter the convent by monks
E) the use of young girls as prostitutes for wealthy men

Question 5

Sigmund Freud began to suspected that the women he treated for hysterical neurosis

A) had been severely beaten as children
B) had been sexually abused by their fathers
C) had been in sexual relationships with their brothers
D) had received a swift blow to the head as a child
E) had been left alone by their mothers for long periods of time

Question 6

The taboo of incest was believed to have developed

A) due to the fear that close inbreeding would produce abnormal offspring
B) because people who live together constantly develop a sexual aversion to each other
C) because the family cannot tolerate the ambiguity or blurred role definitions brought about by the sexual involvement of family members with each other
D) all of the above were theories but the current theory was that it was due to the need for barter among peoples
E) none of the above

Question 7

Weinberg feels that the incest taboo developed due to social stigma based on

A) disgust with the participants in incest
B) an inner revolution toward the idea of incest
C) perception of a disorganized family life
D) perception that the participants are mentally or emotionally abnormal
E) all of the above

Question 8

It was not until _______ that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was formed on the model of the ________.

A) 1874; SPCA
B) 1876; Biblical Society for Children
C) 1956; SPCA
D) 1910; SACP
E) none of the above

Question 9

John Caffey led a group of radiologist to suspect physical abuse in young children because

A) the early writings of C. Henry Kempe caused him to be suspicious
B) the children were wary of adults
C) there were numerous calcium deposits around the bones of children
D) parents denied that anything had happened to their children
E) the children had bruises in various stages of healing

Question 10

In the 1960s and 1970s, child protection agencies were feared by some parents as the agency that could "take kids away". In fact

A) this was quite true and CPS could remove children with little provocation
B) CPS was largely dependent upon the juvenile court to authorize the removal of children
C) CPS could only remove children when the parents agreed to their removal
D) CPS could place children only if their parents actually abandoned them.

Question 11

One study on public opinion and child rearing reported that today the majority of respondents felt that a significant contribution to poor parenting was

A) that mothers needed to work outside the home
B) that fathers are not more involved with children
C) that more parents are not married
D) that fathers cannot take paternity leave.

Question 12

What was the fate of children prior to the late nineteenth century? On what attitudes was this based?

Question 13

Who was Mary Ellen and what influence did she have on the history of intervention on behalf of abuse children?

Question 14

Trace the more recent events in the history of intervening on behalf of abuse and neglected children.