Determining whether a child is suffering from abuse or neglect is often difficult for

Question

all of the following reasons except:

a. Most cases of alleged child maltreatment that come to the attention of authorities
are not so blatant as to make the determination of abuse or neglect self-evident.
b. Abuse and neglect rarely occur in isolation.
c. What may be considered abusive or neglectful at one stage of development may
not be at another.
d. The legislation provides only broad guidelines to establish working definitions of
child abuse and neglect.
e. The legal definitions of abuse and neglect are deliberately vague so as to
accommodate cultural differences in child rearing practices among different
ethnic groups.

Answer 1

E