According to the Text's Discussion of Adolescent Abuse

question 56

Multiple Choice

According to the text's discussion of adolescent abuse,

• A)the risks of family violence and child homicide decrease as children grow older.
• B)Very few parents are physically or verbally abusive toward their children throughout their teen years.
• C)Abuse during adolescence is less likely to cause long term problems than abuse that occurs earlier.
• D)Since abuse of adolescents tends to be mainly verbal,most adolescents ignore it.

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