- What does “patriae potestas” mean?
When fathers have the right to sell, kill, or allow their progeny to continue to live
- Talk about historical practices in the way children were treated.
Spartans practiced infanticide and abandonments of physically deformed newborns, biblical stories of aborted sacrifice, children treated like property
- What does it mean to say that corporal punishment is a parental privilege?
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
- What contribution did John Caffey make to the field?
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”
- How did the phrase “battered-child syndrome” get coined and by whom?
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
- What four obstacles impeded the discovery of child maltreatment?
- 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
- Give four reasons why radiologists, and not pediatricians, were the ones who discovered child maltreatment?
- Radiologists examine X-rays, not people
- Their goal is to discover new diagnostic categories
- Doctor-patient relationship is not an issue
- Professional control
- Explain what “abuse” means.
The commission of an act upon a child, the non-accidental infliction of injury upon a child that impairs them mentally or physically
- Explain what “neglect” means.
The omission of a caretaker function, the withholding of life’s essentials
- Why do people use the term “maltreatment?”
To be broad, it encompasses both the terms of abuse and neglect
• Physical Abuse
non-accidental injury of a child
• Neglect
failure of caregiver to provide a child’s basic needs
• Sexual Abuse
activities by caregiver involving anything sexual
• Emotional Abuse
behavior that damages child’s self-worth or emotional development
• Abandonment
when a child is left alone and caregiver’s whereabouts are unknown
• Substance Abuse
any harm that comes to a child while they are in the womb or not that exposes them inappropriately to drugs or alcohol
- What is the “shaken baby syndrome?”
A brain injury that occurs when a baby is violently shaken, the brain bounces back and forth in the skull
- According to your textbook, what is a “privileged relationship?”
An inviolable, nonintrudable bond between two parties
- How did the doctor-patient relationship initially affect the reporting of child maltreatment?
A doctor cannot reveal any information on their patient relationship without consent from the parent/patient without a civil lawsuit
- What does the standard “in good faith” have to do with the reporting of child maltreatment?
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)
- What does “protective custody” mean?
Terminating parental custody, removing the child from the home, and placing them in a safe foster care environment
- What is the purpose behind the central register?
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.
- Explain some of the problems that remain with identifying and detecting child maltreatment.
- ) Not everyone views maltreatment in the same way.
- ) Not all states place the same degree of emphasis on child maltreatment.
- ) Level of proof required to initiate a social service intervention.
- ) Lack of reporting.
- ) Lack of sufficient training.
What does it mean when a possible maltreatment case has been investigated and determined to be “ubstantiated?”
Means allegation is unfounded and the case is closed.
