Exam 15: Child Maltreatment: When Parenting Goes Awry

When a caregiver (usually the mother) intentionally makes a child ill and then seeks medical attention, this form of physical child abuse is now labeled ______.

The abduction of a child by a stranger is extremely rare.

Medea syndrome refers to cases ______.

In as many as 90% of the child sexual abuse cases, the victim knows the perpetrator. Among the following, ______ are most likely to be male perpetrators.