Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Single parents are more likely to abuse children than are two-parent families, but overall there are no significant differences by race, ethnicity, or social class.

2. Child abuse has serious short-term effects, but research suggests that it has only minimal long-term effects.

3. Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, or fraud or deception, or the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving or receiving of payments to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

4. Sex trafficking results from poverty, economic inequality, patriarchy, and globalization.

5. Elder abuse is the abuse of an elderly person that can include physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, financial or material exploitation, and neglect.


1. F
2. F
3. T
4. T
5. T

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