Final Exam Ch. 11

Question 1

1. What does “patriae potestas” mean?

Answer 1

When fathers have the right to sell, kill, or allow their progeny to continue to live

Question 2

2. Talk about historical practices in the way children were treated.

Answer 2

Spartans practiced infanticide and abandonments of physically deformed newborns, biblical stories of aborted sacrifice, children treated like property

Question 3

3. What does it mean to say that corporal punishment is a parental privilege?

Answer 3

Outside of school, parents have the right to discipline their children using corporal punishment. It is not possible for a parent to commit simple battery against their child when administering physical punishment

Question 4

4. What contribution did John Caffey make to the field?

Answer 4

He published a study outlining bone damage of some of his young patients, other doctors began doing the same. He eventually pointed fingers at parents but couldn’t tell if this was accidental or intentional on their part, he called it “unspecified trauma”

Question 5

5. How did the phrase “battered-child syndrome” get coined and by whom?

Answer 5

Henry Kempe, changed the phrase from unspecified trauma to battered-child syndrome. It categorizes young children with serious physical abuse, generally from a parent or foster parent

Question 6

6. What four obstacles impeded the discovery of child maltreatment?

Answer 6

• Although emergency room physicians dealt with the physical aftermath of chid abuse, they didn’t know what they were seeing
• Physicians couldn’t bring themselves to understand that parents would harm their children in such a way
• Physicians had to adhere to doctor-patient confidentiality, they regarded the parent as their client and didn’t want to be unethical by telling authorities
• Testifying in court would make the doctors have to defend their own medical expertise

Question 7

7. Give four reasons why radiologists, and not pediatricians, were the ones who discovered child maltreatment?

Answer 7

• Radiologists examine X-rays, not people
• Their goal is to discover new diagnostic categories
• Doctor-patient relationship is not an issue
• Professional control

Question 8

8. Explain what “abuse” means.

Answer 8

The commission of an act upon a child, the non-accidental infliction of injury upon a child that impairs them mentally or physically

Question 9

9. Explain what “neglect” means.

Answer 9

The omission of a caretaker function, the withholding of life’s essentials

Question 10

10. Why do people use the term “maltreatment?”

Answer 10

To be broad, it encompasses both the terms of abuse and neglect

Question 11

• Physical Abuse

Answer 11

non-accidental injury of a child

Question 12

• Neglect

Answer 12

failure of caregiver to provide a child’s basic needs

Question 13

• Sexual Abuse

Answer 13

activities by caregiver involving anything sexual

Question 14

• Emotional Abuse

Answer 14

behavior that damages child’s self-worth or emotional development

Question 15

• Abandonment

Answer 15

when a child is left alone and caregiver’s whereabouts are unknown

Question 16

• Substance Abuse

Answer 16

any harm that comes to a child while they are in the womb or not that exposes them inappropriately to drugs or alcohol

Question 17

12. What is the “shaken baby syndrome?”

Answer 17

A brain injury that occurs when a baby is violently shaken, the brain bounces back and forth in the skull

Question 18

13. According to your textbook, what is a “privileged relationship?”

Answer 18

An inviolable, nonintrudable bond between two parties

Question 19

14. How did the doctor-patient relationship initially affect the reporting of child maltreatment?

Answer 19

A doctor cannot reveal any information on their patient relationship without consent from the parent/patient without a civil lawsuit

Question 20

15. What does the standard “in good faith” have to do with the reporting of child maltreatment?

Answer 20

If a person calls authorities with genuine concern of a child’s well-being, they cannot be sued if the allegation turns out to be false (legislative immunity)

Question 21

17. What does “protective custody” mean?

Answer 21

Terminating parental custody, removing the child from the home, and placing them in a safe foster care environment

Question 22

18. What is the purpose behind the central register?

Answer 22

Central register is a depository that stores records of all allegations of child abuse and neglect. The purpose of this record keeping system is to help in the diagnosis by tracking relevant case histories.

Question 23

19. Explain some of the problems that remain with identifying and detecting child maltreatment.

Answer 23

1. ) Not everyone views maltreatment in the same way.
   
   2. ) Not all states place the same degree of emphasis on child maltreatment.
   3. ) Level of proof required to initiate a social service intervention.
   4. ) Lack of reporting.
   5. ) Lack of sufficient training.

Question 24

What does it mean when a possible maltreatment case has been investigated and determined to be “ubstantiated?”

Answer 24

Means allegation is unfounded and the case is closed.

Question 25

What does it mean when a report of possible child maltreatment is screened out of the child welfare system?

Answer 25

It means that safety concerns exist.