Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. Family violence is an umbrella term that includes a wide range of behaviors, including physical, sexual, financial, and verbal or other emotional abuse between a number of dyadic relationships: intimates (e.g., spouses and ex-spouses, boy/girl-friends and exes); parents and children; siblings; and the elderly and their caregivers, including their children.
2. Intimate partner violence has been around forever, but it has only been in the past 60 years or so that it has finally been acknowledged as a social problem and a crime.
3. Optional prosecution requires government attorneys to bring criminal charges against batterers, regardless of the wishes of the victim.
4. Although most states in the United States still do not legally recognize marriage outside of heterosexual relationships, there are hundreds of thousands of nontraditional families in this country comprising same-sex unions both with and without children.
5. Coordinated community responses to violence against women across the domains of criminal justice, social services, and victim advocacy groups are increasingly being employed to both prevent and ameliorate the consequences of this violence.

Answer 1

1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. True