The Public and Many Professionals Use the Term Child Abuse

question 21

Multiple Choice

The public and many professionals use the term child abuse to refer to both abuse and neglect; developmentalists increasingly use the term

• A) child neglect.
• B) child maltreatment.
• C) child battery.
• D) child assault.

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Definitions:

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Transgendered Person

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Homosexual

A term describing individuals who are romantically or sexually attracted to people of their own gender.

Intersexual

A term often associated with intersex individuals who are born with physical sex characteristics that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies.