Deck 2: Historical Perspectives on Family Violence

Question 1

Child abuse norms have origins in:

A) Middle Eastern, Asian, and Roman law
B) Greek and Roman law
C) North and South African law
D) British, Greek, and Roman law

Answer 1

D

Question 2

A strategy for dealing with unruly or unwanted children in pre-industrialized Europe was

A) Beating
B) Abandonment
C) Murder
D) Neglect

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which institution has the legal right to remove a child from their parents and place them into foster care?

A) U.S. Department of Justice
B) Child Health Services
C) Social Security Administration
D) Child Protective Services

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The Foster Care Program, which provided alternate homes for abused/neglected children, was created when?

A) 1929
B) 1962
C) 1980
D) 1955

Question 5

All of the following are legally considered child abuse EXCEPT:

A) Medical neglect
B) Refusal to immunize
C) Failure to thrive
D) Malnourishment

Question 6

Battered child syndrome is a term used to identify what?

A) Children who were abused physically
B) Children who were physically and psychologically abused
C) Children who are neglected
D) Children with incarcerated parents

Question 7

The age of consent to marry in the United States

A) is 19
B) is 16
C) is not concrete and up for interpretation
D) varies among states

Question 8

Promoting Safe and Stable Families is a program which protects whom?

A) Children whose parents are incarcerated
B) Children who have lived in alcoholic families
C) Parents whose children have been removed from them illegally
D) Parents whose children are incarcerated

Question 9

People became more aware of elder abuse in part because of

A) Desensitization
B) Deinstitutionalization
C) Decriminalization
D) Depression

Question 10

The 1974 amendment to the ____________________ Act provided funding to all fifty states to set up protective care units for all individuals over the age of eighteen, despite increasing evidence that protective service units were in fact detrimental to the health and well-being of aging Americans.

A) Adult Abuse Prevention
B) Personal Responsibility
C) Elder Abuse Prevention
D) Social Security

Question 11

In Mississippi's Bradley vs. State (1824) the ____________________ was upheld as legal.

A) Rule of thumb
B) Finger switch rule
C) Rule of battering
D) Battering rule

Question 12

Moving domestic violence cases to ____________________ made them seem less threatening for victims than criminal cases.

A) Civil court
B) Criminal court
C) Marital court
D) Family court

Question 13

The Violence Against Women Act was first signed into law by which president?

A) Ronald Reagan
B) Bill Clinton
C) George W. Bush
D) Joe Biden

Question 14

Patrilineal culture is a culture in which wealth is passed down through males.

Question 15

Megan's law established the National Sex Offender Registry.

Question 16

There is scientific evidence that autism is passed through vaccinations.

Question 17

The Adoption and Safe Families Act informs alleged abusers of complaint against them.

Question 18

Religion and western culture required that husbands love their wives and could not abuse them; modern day culture has allowed the abuse.

Question 19

Adults are considered under the category of elder abuse.

Question 20

Incest is defined the same cross-culturally.

Question 21

"Cap" children do not qualify for welfare.

Question 22

Amber Alerts notify the community of a child abduction.

Question 23

World War I resulted in women being more likely to stay at home.

Question 24

What effect did the Civil Rights Movement have on child abuse treatment?

Question 25

Describe the circumstances in which parental rights can be terminated by the government.

Question 26

Explain five (5) types of child abuse.

Question 27

What groups are considered "special populations"? Why?

Question 28

In your opinion, should a parent's refusal to have their child immunized constitute medical neglect? Why or why not? Under current laws, is the refusal to immunize considered medical neglect?

Question 29

How do individual definitions of family hinder the legal protections against and prosecution of incest?

Question 30

What was the result of the deinstitutionalization of adults with mental and physical impairments or chronic diseases and injuries?

Question 31

Explain a court ruling or law in the United States that permitted domestic violence against women.

Question 32

What is the impact of moving domestic violence cases from criminal court into family court?

Question 33

What is the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and what is its significance in the anti-domestic violence movement?