Deck 6: Economics of Child Abuse

Question 1

What are the two highest factors in child abuse?

Answer 1

Neglect was the highest factor (75.3%) followed by physical abuse (17.2%).

Question 2

What percentage of child abuse involves a parent?

Answer 2

Four-fifths (77.7%) of child abuse involved a parent.

Question 3

Who is considered a child in the United States?

Answer 3

In the United States, a child is someone who is under 18 years of age and has not been emancipated as an adult.

Question 4

Why is a child in greater danger of abuse than an adult?

Question 5

What is a perpetrator of child abuse?

Question 6

What does prevalence mean in terms of child abuse?

Question 7

How is discipline different than abuse?

Question 8

What is the difference between reasonable force and unreasonable force (or cruel punishment)?

Question 9

What are the five types of violence related to child abuse?

Question 10

What is physical abuse of a child?

Question 11

What is human trafficking?

Question 12

What is child trafficking?

Question 13

What are the three types of child trafficking?

Question 14

What is medical child abuse?

Question 15

What is a child fatality?

Question 16

What is verbal abuse and what are some types of verbal child abuse?

Question 17

What is emotional abuse (or psychological abuse)?

Question 18

How is education related to child abuse?

Question 19

What is pedophilia?

Question 20

What is female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision?

Question 21

Why is the term "child prostitute" incorrect?

Question 22

What makes the market for child trafficking profitable?

Question 23

What is bullying and cyberbullying?

Question 24

What are some of the reasons a child is removed from the home and placed in foster care in the United States?

Question 25

What is the main federal law in the United States related to child abuse and neglect and what did the law establish?

Question 26

What is the main federal data collection system on child abuse and neglect in the United States?

Question 27

How are child abuse and neglect laws similar between the states in the U.S. and how do they differ?

Question 28

What was the first federal act related to human trafficking in the United States?

Question 29

What is the main United Nations convention and protocols to protect children?

Question 30

What is the main reason there are controversies related to child abuse?

Question 31

Who are the decision makers related to child abuse?

Question 32

What are the decisions of the guardian of a child?

Question 33

What are the decisions of a person who is not the guardian of a child related to the child that may be abused?

Question 34

What are some forms that a child abuser may take and where might the abuse occur?

Question 35

What are the decisions of bystanders to child abuse?

Question 36

What are some restrictions that government entities face related to child abuse?

Question 37

What organization is responsible for responding to reports of child abuse and neglect in the United States and what are some of the decisions the organization must make related to the child?

Question 38

What are some of the decisions of a child who is being abused?

Question 39

What are some of the costs to the household of child abuse?

Question 40

What are some costs to the perpetrator of child abuse?

Question 41

What are some costs to society of child abuse?

Question 42

What are some of the governmental costs of child abuse?

Question 43

What are some of the costs to the child being abused?

Question 44

When might a household benefit from child abuse?

Question 45

Why might a perpetrator benefit from abusing a child?

Question 46

What are some of the inefficiencies in the system to prevent child abuse?

Question 47

How can a household time allocation model be used to study differentiated treatment of children in a household?

Question 48

How does discounting play a part in the time allocation of children in a household?

Question 49

Why was Kenya used as a case study for household time allocation of children?

Question 50

What services are needed in order to protect a child from child abuse?

Question 51

When is it efficient to leave a child in a home in which abuse has been reported?

Question 52

When is it efficient to remove a child from a home in which abuse has been reported?

Question 53

How can bystanders play an important role in preventing child abuse?

Question 54

In relation to the case study on Kenya, if you had money to help prevent child labor, who would you target with the funds and how would you target them?

Question 55

What are some services needed to help a child who been abused become a productive adult?